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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

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Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

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And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

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If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

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Tears such as angels weep.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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