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Eve4 quotes
O 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 · 1667And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. — Genesis 3:4-5 · 1405 BCThe infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd The mother of mankind. — John Milton · 1667
Original sin3 quotes
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. — John Milton · 1667And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. — Genesis 3:4-5 · 1405 BCThe infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd The mother of mankind. — John Milton · 1667
The devil2 quotes
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. — Genesis 3:4-5 · 1405 BCThe infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd The mother of mankind. — John Milton · 1667
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. — Genesis 3:4-5 · 1405 BC
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. — John Milton · 1667
O fairest of Creation, last and best Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667
Temptation1 quote
And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. — Genesis 3:4-5 · 1405 BC
Women1 quote
O fairest of Creation, last and best Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667