Let None Henceforth Seek Needless Cause To

So He With Difficulty And Labour Hard Mov'd On, With Difficulty And Labour He.

These Are Thy Glorious Works, Parent Of Good!

Yet Hold It More Humane, More Heav'nly, First, By Winning Words To Conquer Willing Hearts, And Make Persuasion Do The Work Of Fear.

In Contemplation Of Created Things, By Steps We May Ascend To God.

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.