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The Renaissance99 quotes
Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light. — John Milton · 1667O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667Her 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. — John Milton · 1667Of 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. — John Milton · 1667What 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. — John Milton · 1667All rising to great place is by a winding stair. — Francis Bacon · 1625All 99 quotes →Age of Enlightenment48 quotes
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blessed. — Alexander Pope · 1733Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. — Alexander Pope · 1711For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. — Francis Bacon · 1620To err is human, to forgive divine. — Alexander Pope · 1711Woman's at best a contradiction still. — Alexander Pope · 1735A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again. — Alexander Pope · 1711All 48 quotes →Middle Ages3 quotes
He loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie. — Geoffrey Chaucer · 1400And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. — Geoffrey Chaucer · 1400Love is a thing as any spirit free. — Geoffrey Chaucer · 1400