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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

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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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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

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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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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

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So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

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When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

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In naked beauty most adorned.

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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

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