| Quotes |
Topic |
| Obscurity | The palpable obscure. |
| Oracle | The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. |
| Oratory | Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. |
| Order | Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined, Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. |
| Pansies | The pansy freaked with jet. |
| Paradise | A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. |
| Paradise | So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champain head Of a steep wilderness. |
| Passion | Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will Would not admit. |
| Patience | Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel. |
| Patience | They also serve who only stand and wait. |
| Peace | Peace hath her victories No less renown'd than war. |
| Peace | Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. |
| Perseverance | So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success. |
| Philosophy | How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. |
| Philosophy | That stone, . . . Philosophers in vain so long have sought. |
| Plagiarism | For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary. |
| Plagiarism | Copy from one, it's plagiarism, copy from two, it's research. |
| Government | Who overcomesBy force, hath overcome but half his foe. |
| Government | None can love freedom but good men, the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants. |
| Power | Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. |
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