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• Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal now does always last.
  -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Davideis, Book i, Line 25...
• An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
  -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Davideis, Book ii, Line 95...
• I fled, and cry'd out, DEATH! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, DEATH!
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- Paradise Lost, Book ii, Line 787...
• Led by my hand, he saunter'd Europe round, And gather'd every vice on Christian ground.
  -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Dunciad, Book iv, Line 311...
• Hence, ye profane! I hate ye all, Both the great vulgar and the small.
  -- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667) -- Horace, Book iii, Ode 1...
• People fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
  -- La Bruyere (French essayist)...
• She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason.
  To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the mo...
• Just men, by whom impartial laws were given; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.
  -- Thomas Tickell (1686-1740) -- On the Death of Mr. Addison, Line 41...