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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

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Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

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And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

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Evil, be thou my good.

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

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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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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

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