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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

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If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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In naked beauty most adorned.

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