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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 8, I. 896.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 9, I. 896.

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

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 2, I. 432.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, I. 432.

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The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 277.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 277.

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

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 895.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 895.

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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.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 8, I. 780.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 9, I. 780.

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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.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 1, l. 1.

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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.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 1, I. 22.

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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.

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Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 229.

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Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 229.

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I bend but do not break.

Jean de la Fontaine

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La Fontaine, Jean. "Le chene et le roseau [The Oak and the Reed]." Fables. Paris, 1668, bk. 1, no. 22.

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La Fontaine, Jean. "The Oak and the Reed." The Complete Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Illinois Press, 2007, bk. 1, no. 22.

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Who overcomes
By force hath overcome but half his foe.

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Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 1, I. 648.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, I. 648.

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

John Dryden

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Dryden, John. Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr. Performed by Nell Gwyn and Margaret Hughes and Michael Mohun and Charles Hart and Rebecca Marshall and William Cartwright. King's Company, 1669, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Dryden, John. "Tyrannick Love." The Works of John Dryden, edited by Maximillian E. Nozak and George R. Guffey. Vol. 10, University of California, 1970.

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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.

Asai Ryoi

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Tales of the Floating World

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Asai, Ryoi. 浮世物語 [Tales of the Floating World]. c. 1666, bk. 1, ch. 1.

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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.

Samuel Pepys

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 22 Sept. 1668.

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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.

Samuel Pepys

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Pepys, Samuel. Diary entry. 17 June 1668.

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Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 1, I. 263.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 263.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 4, I. 639.

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All hell broke loose.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 4, I. 918.

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Milton, John. "Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 4, I. 918.

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Yet I shall temper so
Justice with mercy.

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 9, I. 77-78.

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

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Milton, John. Paradise Lost. London: Samuel Simmons, 1667, bk. 3, I. 683.

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"Paradise Lost." John Milton: Major Works, edited by Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, I. 683.

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We shall die alone.