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High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence.

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Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assur'd us.

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The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

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Rather than be less, Car'd not to be at all.

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My sentence is for open war.

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That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse.

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When the scourge Inexorable and the torturing hour Call us to penance.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason,[226-1] to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.[226-2]

_Paradise Lost.