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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

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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.

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Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine, and be not diffident Of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to things Less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.

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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.

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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Moved on, with difficulty and labour he;...

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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, and a Hell of Heaven.

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Mortals that would follow me, Love vertue, she alone is free,...

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None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.

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Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity,...

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Thus Satan talking to his neerest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes...

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Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety,...

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A happy rural seat of various view: Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;...

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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where e'er thy bones are hurl'd,...

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The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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