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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

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Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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