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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

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Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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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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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

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

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The timely dew of sleep.

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

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What hath night to do with sleep?

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From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

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