Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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But cloud instead, and ever-during dark

Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men

Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair

Presented with a universal blank

Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd,

And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 40.

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 99.

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,