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Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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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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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

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Hell has no benefits, only torture.

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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

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They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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