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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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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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So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

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

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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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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

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Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

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