Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.John Milton
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day.
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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.
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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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Abash'd the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely.
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