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Execute their airy purposes.

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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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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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Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

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The never-ending flight Of future days.

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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

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O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.

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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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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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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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