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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

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

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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Freely we serve, because freely we love.

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

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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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Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

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