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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

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Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

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The sacred influence of light appears.

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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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God is thy law, thou mine.

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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

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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

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