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 | "Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God?s image, but thee
who destroys a good book, kills reason its self." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which
otherwise would heal and do well." | |
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Found in the topic Revenge.
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| "For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges
sweet return." | |
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Found in the topic Solitude.
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| "Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way
I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still
threat"ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a
heaven." | |
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Found in the topic Heaven.
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| "A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling
shapes, and beck"ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men"s
names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses." | |
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Found in the topic Fantasy.
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| "The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that
he nothing knew." | |
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Found in the topic Knowledge.
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| "Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence
returning, to regain Love once possess"d." | |
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Found in the topic Beauty.
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| "Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms." | |
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Found in the topic Money.
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| "The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War." | |
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Found in the topic Peace.
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| "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." | |
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Found in the topic God.
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| "In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm And
pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out
and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and
earth." | |
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Found in the topic Calm.
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| "He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and
fears, is more than a king." | |
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Found in the topic Fear.
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| "Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows." | |
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Found in the topic Good.
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| "Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when
resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the
sweet bloom of nature"s fairest forms." | |
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Found in the topic Lust.
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| "Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the
earth, so Truth be in the field, we do ingloriously, by licensing and
prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple: who
ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?" | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "No light, but rather darkness visible." | |
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Found in the topic Light.
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| "Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England"s Council, and
her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them
both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament
Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have
known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks
I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all
both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured
Margaret." | |
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Found in the topic Virtue.
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| "What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th" unconquerable
will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or
yield." | |
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Found in the topic Determination.
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| "When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this
dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged
with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and
present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact
day-labour, light denied?" I fondly ask; But patience, to prevent That
murmur, soon replies "God doth not need Either man"s work or his own
gifts. Who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is
kingly: thousands at His bidding speed And post o"er land and ocean
without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait."" | |
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Found in the topic Rest.
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