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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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

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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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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

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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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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

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Temper justice with mercy.

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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

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