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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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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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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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God made thee perfect, not immutable.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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

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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

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...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

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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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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

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