• Society

  And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

  3.9 · 38 votes · 93 reads

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• Various

  And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

  4.4 · 58 votes · 18 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

  3.3 · 11 votes · 60 reads

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• Time

  Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

  3.0 · 45 votes · 183 reads

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• Nature

  Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  4.6 · 54 votes · 192 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

  3.2 · 54 votes · 72 reads

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• Society

  Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

  3.7 · 26 votes · 76 reads

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• Society

  Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

  5.0 · 32 votes · 7 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

  4.1 · 8 votes · 178 reads

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• Art and Culture

  For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I kn

  4.4 · 45 votes · 165 reads

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• Defects

  For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

  4.0 · 60 votes · 143 reads

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• Society

  Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

  3.5 · 44 votes · 191 reads

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• Various

  Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

  4.7 · 31 votes · 2 reads

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• Various

  Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

  4.3 · 60 votes · 113 reads

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• Virtues

  He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

  4.0 · 26 votes · 79 reads

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• Virtues

  He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king - Milton, John

  4.5 · 53 votes · 117 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.

  4.1 · 54 votes · 112 reads

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• Nature

  How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

  3.6 · 22 votes · 27 reads

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• Various

  It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.

  4.1 · 47 votes · 17 reads

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• Society

  Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  3.1 · 42 votes · 151 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

  5.0 · 31 votes · 89 reads

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• Society

  License they mean when they cry liberty.

  4.7 · 24 votes · 174 reads

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• Government and Politics

  Lords are lordliest in their wine.

  3.4 · 46 votes · 105 reads

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• Countries

  Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

  3.1 · 57 votes · 144 reads

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• Society

  Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.

  3.5 · 10 votes · 133 reads

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• Society

  None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

  3.8 · 5 votes · 0 reads

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• Science and Technology

  Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

  3.0 · 47 votes · 169 reads

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• Society

  Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

  3.4 · 26 votes · 194 reads

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• Various

  Our country is where ever we are well off.

  4.9 · 14 votes · 14 reads

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• Society

  Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.

  4.6 · 13 votes · 130 reads

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• Virtues

  Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

  3.3 · 18 votes · 36 reads

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• Art and Culture

  Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  3.0 · 61 votes · 152 reads

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• Feelings

  Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

  4.3 · 42 votes · 66 reads

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• Time

  The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

  4.0 · 44 votes · 99 reads

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• Virtues

  The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

  4.6 · 56 votes · 191 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

  3.2 · 43 votes · 79 reads

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• Feelings

  These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

  3.4 · 50 votes · 89 reads

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• Virtues

  They also serve who only stand and wait.

  3.3 · 24 votes · 58 reads

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• Society

  This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

  4.7 · 8 votes · 80 reads

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• Society

  Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

  3.3 · 43 votes · 155 reads

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• Literature5 of their quotes
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