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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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

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Reason is also choice.

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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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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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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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

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Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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

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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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