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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

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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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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

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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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