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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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

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Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

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Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

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

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

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