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We see things not as they are but as we are.
Topic: Sight
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 414)
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Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost.
Topic: Sin
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 780)
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So many laws argues so many sins.
Topic: Sin
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 283)
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Law can discover sin, but not remove,
Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
Topic: Sin
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 290)
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul
And lap it in Elysium.
Topic: Singing
Source: Comus (l. 256)
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Or did the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as, warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.
Topic: Singing
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 105)
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The planets in their station list'ning stood.
Topic: Sky
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 563)
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Execrable son! so to aspire
Above his brethren, to himself assuming
Authority usurp'd, from God not given.
He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By his donation; but man over men
He made not lord; such title to himself
Reserving, human left from human free.
Topic: Slavery
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 64)
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For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
Topic: Smiles
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 239)
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A smile that glow'd
Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
Topic: Smiles
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 618)
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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
Topic: Sound
Source: Comus (l. 550)
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Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds,
At which the universal host up sent
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Topic: Sound
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 540)
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Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.
Topic: Sound
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 476)
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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.
Topic: Spirits
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 678)
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Ride the air
In whirlwind.
Topic: Storms
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 545)
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And, weaponless himself,
Made arms ridiculous.
Topic: Strength
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 130)
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What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
Topic: Strength
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 130)
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
Topic: Strength
Source: None
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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.
Topic: Study
Source: Reason of Church Government--Introduction (bk. II)
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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
Topic: Sun
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 8)
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And the gilded car of day,
His glowing axle doth allay
In the steep Atlantic stream.
Topic: Sunset
Source: Comus (l. 95)
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The swan, with arched neck
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows
Her state with oary feet.
Topic: Swans
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 438)
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Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the
Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Maeander.
Topic: Swans
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 438)
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For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.
Topic: Sympathy
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 357)
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If all the world
Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse,
Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,
Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
Topic: Temperance
Source: Comus (l. 720)
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Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature,
As if she would her children should be riotous
With her abundance; she, good cateress,
Means her provision only to the good,
That live according to her sober laws,
And holy dictate of spare temperance.
Topic: Temperance
Source: Comus (l. 762)
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Well observe
The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught
In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
Topic: Temperance
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 531)
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O madness to think use of strongest wines
And strongest drinks our chief support of health,
When God with these forbidden made choice to rear
His mighty champion, strong above compare,
Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
Topic: Temperance
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 553)
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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
Topic: Temptations
Source: None
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Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
Topic: Treachery
Source: Comus (l. 697)
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Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
Topic: Trials
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 228)
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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
Topic: Twilight
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 597)
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From that high mount of God whence light and shade
Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed
To grateful twilight.
Topic: Twilight
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 643)
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Unbelief is blind.
Topic: Unbelief
Source: Comus (l. 519)
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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures rational.
Topic: Unity
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 496)
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Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
Topic: Victory
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 648)
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Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.
Topic: Visions
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 628)
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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I
Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne
My part of evil only.
Topic: Visions
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 763)
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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he awhile
Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
Topic: Voice
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 1)
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
Topic: Water
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 11)
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If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,
With God or man will gain thee no remission.
Topic: Weakness
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 831)
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Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 690)
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed.
Topic: Work
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 618)
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The work under our labour grows
Luxurious by restraint.
Topic: Work
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 208)
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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,
Forget not.
Topic: Worship
Source: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
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How often from the steep
Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard
Celestial voices to the midnight air,
Sole, or responsive each to other's note,
Singing their great Creator?
Topic: Worship
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 680)
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A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's latest image.
Topic: Zeal
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 565)
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But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
Topic: Zeal
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 849)
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But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
Topic: Zeal
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 895)
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