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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

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All hell broke loose.

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

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

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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.

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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

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But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.

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Where all life dies death lives.

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Execute their airy purposes.

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Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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