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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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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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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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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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Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

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The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

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

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

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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

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