“Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how lovely; saw And pined his loss.”<\/p>\n
“Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver’d nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour’d heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.”<\/p>\n
“He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i’ the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.”<\/p>\n
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”<\/p>\n
“That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find
\nJustification towards God, and peace Of conscience.”<\/p>\n
“Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.”<\/p>\n
“These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.”<\/p>\n
“When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.”<\/p>\n
“Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor’d falsehood and base forgery?”<\/p>\n
“Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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