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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

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Such joy ambition finds.

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

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And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

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But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

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None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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Antichrist is Mammon's son.

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

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All hell broke loose.

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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

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