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

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Of what he was, what is, and what must be

Worse.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23.

At whose sight all the stars

Hide their diminish'd heads.[231:1]

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 34.

A grateful mind

By owing owes not, but still pays, at once

Indebted and discharg'd.

Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 55.