Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.John Milton
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
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Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair Which way I fly is hell myself am hell And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
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Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light.
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I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
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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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