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

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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

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Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

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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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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

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And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

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When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

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He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

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