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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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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

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Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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