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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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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

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

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None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. 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. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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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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Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

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