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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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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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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

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And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

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Our reason is our law.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

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What is dark within me, illumine.

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He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

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