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Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love? Which of ye will be mortal to redeem Man's mortal crime, and just th' unjust to save.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

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Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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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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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

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Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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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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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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