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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

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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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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

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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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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

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Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

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And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

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With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

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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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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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