And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
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.
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature’s fairest forms.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.
To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer’d shade.
And some are fall’n, to disobedience fall’n, And so from Heav’n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!
Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.
On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.
For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men – delighted, and with frequent intercourse – thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.
A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.
When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.
Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.
Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.