He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTONLong is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other’s burden.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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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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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Freely we serve, because freely we love.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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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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