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

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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

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And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

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If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

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

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