Behold now this vast city London a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
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(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.
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But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run.
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