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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

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To live a life half dead, a living death.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

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Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

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Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

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