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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

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A short retirement urges a sweet return.

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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

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This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

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Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

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I see thou art implacable, more deaf To pray'rs than winds and seas. Yet winds to seas Are reconcil'd at length, and sea to shore: Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages Eternal tempest never to be calm'd.

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Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

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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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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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