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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

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

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Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

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