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Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

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Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

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If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state, a being darkly wise, and rudely great.

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When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads to the changeless change - Non-Being, the glorious state of Absoluteness, the Bliss past human thought.

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Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

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The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

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Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

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I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

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And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

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For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.

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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan, For we are born in other's pain, And perish in our own.

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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.

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She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be.

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All's vast that vastness means. Nay, I affirm Nature is whole in her least things exprest,...

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Absence, with all its pains, is, by this charming moment, wiped away.

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And all sad scenes and thoughts and feelings vanish In that sweet sleep no power can ever banish,...

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For life is but a dream whose shapes return, Some frequently, some seldom, some by night And some by day,

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Once in a stately passion / I cried with desperate grief,/ 'O Lord, my heart is black with guile,/ Of sinners I am chief.'

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