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

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

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Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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Faithful found among the faithless.

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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Hide me from day's garish eye.

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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

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A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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