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Play · History play

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

1839

★ 9.5

Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed.

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 8.8

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty · 1859

★ 7.9

Song · Rock music

I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no girl reaction.

The Rolling Stones

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction · 1965

★ 7.9

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

How little do we know that which we are! How less what we may be!

Don Juan · 1824

★ 7.5

Poem · Philosophical literature

No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3

Poem · Philosophical literature

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell · 1793

★ 7.3

Everything that lives, Lives not alone, nor for itself.

1789

★ 7.2

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

1807

★ 7.2

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

I am ashes where once I was fire.

1824

★ 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

Political literature

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A Vindication of the Rights of Men · 1790

★ 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

Play · Tragic play

You have deeply ventured; But all must do so who would greatly win.

1821

★ 7.1

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

1625

★ 7.0

Essay · Philosophical literature · Political literature

A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for...is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free.

John Stuart Mill

1862

★ 7.0

Philosophical literature

Ancient times were the youth of the world.

1605

★ 7.0

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