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The other shape, If shape it might be call\'d that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call\'d that shadow seem\'d, For each seem\'d either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem\'d his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

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Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

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