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Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.

That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

Who overcomesBy force, hath overcome but half his foe.

None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.

Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.

And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.

Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

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

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.