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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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Reason also is choice.

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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

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Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

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God is thy law, thou mine.

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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

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Courage never to submit of yield.

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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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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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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

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Where shame is, there is also fear.

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