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

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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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Danger will wink on opportunity.

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Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

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

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Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

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Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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