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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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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

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What is dark within me, illumine.

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It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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