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• Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the praye
  Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray....
• If one word does not succeed, ten thousand are of no avail.
• A heaven on earth. -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book iv, Line 208
• The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ix, Line 208...
• And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Absalom and Achitophel, Part i, Line 197...
• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Theodore and Honoria, Line 227...
• One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word. -- Edward Abbey
• Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- To the Memory of Mr. Oldham, Line 15...
• Exam is a four-letter word for torture...