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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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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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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

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Believe and be confirmed.

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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

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It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

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