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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.
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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
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Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
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God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.
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Execute their airy purposes.
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Without the meed of some melodious tear.
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
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Yet I argue notAgainst Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate one jotOf heart or hope; but still bear up, and steerRight onward.
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
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For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor;So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed;And yet anon repairs his drooping head,And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled oreFlames in the forehead of the morning sky.So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,Through the dear might of him that walked the waves.
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Methought I saw my late espousèd saintBrought to me like Alcestis from the grave.
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
John Milton