What Need A Man Forestall

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. 1 Paradise Lost. Book I. Line 22.

I Will Point Ye Out The Right Path Of A Virtuous And Noble Education; Laborious Indeed At First Ascent, But Else So Smooth, So Green, So Full Of Goodly Prospect, And Melodious Sounds On Every Side, That The Harp Of Orpheus Was Not More Charming.

What Boots It At One Gate To Make Defence, And At Another To Let In The Foe?

He 's Gone, And Who Knows How He May Report Thy Words By Adding Fuel To The Flame?

Know Thy Birth! For Dost Thou Art, And Shalt To Dust Return.