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

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Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 548.

Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;

Do thou but thine.

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 561.

Oft times nothing profits more

Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right

Well manag'd.[238:1]

Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 571.

Those graceful acts,

Those thousand decencies that daily flow