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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

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Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

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

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

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No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

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God shall be all in all.

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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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The brazen throat of war.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

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

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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

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

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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

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