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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
John Milton
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal BenchOf British Themis, with no mean applausePronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,Which others at their Bar so often wrench
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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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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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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My sentence is for open war.
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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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God shall be all in all.
John Milton