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- For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
- For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: /…
- Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.
- Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
- Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is…
- So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.
- Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.
- The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
- The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to…
- O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear…
- Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision…
- O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
- 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…
- They also serve who only stand and wait.
- O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God…
- 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…
- 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…
- Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and…
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