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

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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

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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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The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

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For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

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Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? They praise, and they admire, they know not what; And know not whom, but as one leads the other; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?

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