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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.[223-1]

_Paradise Lost. Book i . Line 22._

As far as angels' ken.

_Paradise Lost. Book i . Line 59._

Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all.

_Paradise Lost. Book i . Line 65._

What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th' unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield.

_Paradise Lost. Book i . Line 105._

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

_Paradise Lost. Book i . Line 157._

And out of good still to find means of evil.

_Paradise Lost. Book i . Line 165._

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: hail, horrors!

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A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.[224-1]

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

_Paradise Lost. Book i . Line 261._

Heard so oft In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle.

_Paradise Lost.