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

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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

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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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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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Wickedness is weakness.

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Danger will wink on opportunity.

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The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

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Forget thyself to marble.

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He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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

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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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