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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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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

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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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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

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

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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

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His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

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

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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

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

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