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Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

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Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

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But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

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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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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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The sacred influence of light appears.

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We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

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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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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

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Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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That power Which erring men call Chance.

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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? 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.

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