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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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A short retirement urges a sweet return.

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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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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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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

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Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

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In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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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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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

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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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