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

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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My sentence is for open war.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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Dark with excessive bright.

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Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

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Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

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