What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
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Let none admire That riches grow in hell that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.
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Arm th' obdur'd breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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