| Quotes |
Topic |
| Blindness | O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of day. |
| Blindness | These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. |
| Books | Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. |
| Books | Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe. |
| Chastity | 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity. |
| Chastity | So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt. |
| Choice | Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all. |
| Choice | Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain? |
| Christ | The Pilot of the Galilean Lake. |
| Christianity | Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight. |
| Christianity | We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in. |
| Christmas | 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, For so the holy sages once did sing, That He our deadly forfeit should release, And with His Father work us a perpetual peace. |
| Christmas | Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time, And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony. |
| Cities | Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. |
| Cities | The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. |
| Clouds | Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? |
| Clouds | There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove. |
| Clouds | So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. |
| Clouds | The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. |
| Cocks | While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn door Stoutly struts his dames before. |
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