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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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Reason is also choice.

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

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His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

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But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

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God shall be all in all.

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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

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Evil, be thou my good.

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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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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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