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And happy constellations on that hour
Shed their selectest influence; the earth
Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill;
Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs
Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings
Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

The sum of earthly bliss.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 508.

So well to know

Her own, that what she wills to do or say
Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine.

Oft times nothing profits more

Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

Unless an age too late, or cold

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Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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1 "But most of all respect thyself."- A precept of the Pythagoreans.

For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.

At shut of evening flowers.

Paradise Lost. Book ix. Line 249.

As one who long in populous city pent,

Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air.

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Left that command

Sole daughter of his voice.1

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Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe
That all was lost.

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Yet I shall temper so

Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most
Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd
His nostril wide into the murky air,
Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

How gladly would I meet

Mortality my sentence, and be earth.
Insensible! how glad would lay me down
As in my mother's lap!

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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? — thus leave
Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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-WORDSWORTH: Ode to Duty.

Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue

The visual nerve, for he had much to see.

Paradise Lost. Book xi. Line 414.

Moping melancholy

And moon-struck madness.

And over them triumphant Death his dart
Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invok'd.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
Into thy mother's lap.

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st
Live well: how long or short permit to heaven.1

A bevy of fair women.

The brazen throat of war.

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Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon;
The world was all before them, where to choose

Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.
They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow,
Through Eden took their solitary way.

Beauty stands

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Paradise Regained. Book ii. Line 220.

In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive.
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

Elephants endors'd with towers.

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Syene, and where the shadow both way falls,
Meroe, Nilotic isle.

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Dusk faces with white silken turbans wreath'd.

1 Summum nec metuas diem, nec optes (Neither fear nor wish for your last day). MARTIAL: lib. x. epigram 47, line 13.

The childhood shows the man,

As morning shows the day.1

Paradise Regained Book iv. Line 220.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts

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Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece,
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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Socrates . . .

Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd

Wisest of men.

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

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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.
Or if I would delight my private hours
With music or with poem, where so soon
As in our native language can I find
That solace ?

Till morning fair

Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray.

Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse

Without all hope of day!

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Ran on embattled armies clad in iron,

And, weaponless himself,

Made arms ridiculous.

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Just are the ways of God,

And justifiable to men;

Unless there be who think not God at all.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?

But who is this, what thing of sea or land,
Female of sex it seems,

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That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay,

Comes this way sailing

Like a stately ship

Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles

Of Javan or Gadire,

With all her bravery on, and tackle trim,

Sails fill'd, and streamers waving,

Courted by all the winds that hold them play,

An amber scent of odorous perfume

Her harbinger?

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain

Love once possess'd.

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He's gone, and who knows how he may report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,
Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair,
And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

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