Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,Said then the lost Archangel, this the seatThat we must change for heav'n, this mournful gloomFor that ce...
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They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
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But say I could repent and could obtaineBy Act of Grace my former state: how soonwould higth recal high thoughts; how soon unsaywhat feign'd submissio...
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So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not with indented wave,Prone on the ground, as since; ...
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
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But first whom shall we sendIn search of this new world, whom shall we findSufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feetThe dark unbottomed infinit...
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th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?
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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
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All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.
