1660s · Skopia

Showing 66 quotes from the 1660s

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.8

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

O fairest of Creation, last and best Of all God's works.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.8

Epigram · Philosophical literature

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.3

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Of Man's First Disobedience, and the fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing, Heav'nly Muse.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.1

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 7.1

Epigram · Philosophical literature

God is, or He is not. But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separates us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?... If you win, you win everything; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is.

Pensees · 1662

★ 7.0

Fable and fairytale

I bend but do not break.

Jean de La Fontaine

1668

★ 6.1

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 5.6

Play · Tragedy (play)

Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are.

Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr · 1669

★ 5.4

Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maples, singing songs, drinking water and diverting ourselves in just floating, floating; caring not a whit for the poverty staring us in the face, refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current: this is what we call ukiyo.

Tales of the Floating World · 1661

★ 5.2

Personal journal

In appearance, at least, he being on all occasions glad to be at friendship with me, though we hate one another, and know it on both sides.

1668

★ 5.2

Personal journal

I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.

1668

★ 5.1

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.8

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

All hell broke loose.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

With thee conversing I forget all time.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy.

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 4.0

Epigram · Philosophical literature

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Pensees · 1662

★ 3.9

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