When I consider how my light is spent E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide, Lodg'd with me useless, though my Soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, least he returning chide, Doth God exact day-labour, light deny'd, I fondly ask; But patience to prevent That murmur, soon replies, God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts, who best Bear his milde yoak, they serve him best, his State Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed And post o're Land and Ocean without rest: They also serve who only stand and waite.
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Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the Cause Of Truth, in word mightier than they in Arms; And for the testimony of Truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse
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The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.
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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
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Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb
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Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse,...
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To measure life learn thou betimes, and know Toward solid good what leads the nearest way;...
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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He also serves who only stands and waits.
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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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Celestial Cupid her fam'd son advanc't, Holds his dear Psyche sweet intranc't...
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
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Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
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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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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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I am a part of all that I have met.
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But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive.
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
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Accuse not nature, she hath done her partDo thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest.
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Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
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He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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We carry our homes within us which enables us to fly.
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...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
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Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light
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There was a time when we the U.S. had completely unrestricted immigration, when anybody could come to these shores and the motto on the Statue of Liberty had some real meaning. This was a country of hope and of promise for immigrants and their children, and as many as a million immigrants a year came in 1906 and '07 and '08. By 1914, roughly a third of the population was foreign-born or the immediate descendants of foreign-born...The fact that year after year hundreds of thousands of people left the countries of Europe to come to this country was persuasive evidence that they were coming to improve their lot, not to worsen it.
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