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Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

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Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

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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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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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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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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

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So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

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He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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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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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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