| Quotes |
Topic |
| Power | Power ought to serve as a check to power. |
| Praise | Join voices, all ye living souls, ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. |
| Praise | And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. |
| Praise | Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise. |
| Progress | That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat, descent and fall To give us is adverse. |
| Prophecy | No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. |
| Prophecy | Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. |
| Prosperity | Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. |
| Proverbs | Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. |
| Proverbs | A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem. |
| Proverbs | What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? |
| Proverbs | He gives twice who gives quickly. - credited to Publius Syrus Mimus, |
| Providence | Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. |
| Psychological Subjects | Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. |
| Reason | But all was false and hollow, though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. |
| Reason | Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. |
| Reason | Indu'd With sanctity of reason. |
| Remorse | Farewell, remorse, all good to me is lost, Evil, be thou my good. |
| Repentance | When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour Calls us to penance. |
| Revenge | Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. |
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