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And understood not that a grateful mind
By owing owes not, but still pays, at once
Indebted and discharged; what burden then?

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.

The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n

We may with more successful hope resolve
To wage by force or guile eternal Warr

(To speak of "eternal war" is to be implicitly doubtful about the prospects for victory.)