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01c. 1641 AD

And feel that I am happier than I know.

John Milton / quote

02c. 1641 AD

So well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.

John Milton / quote

03c. 1638 AD

Fishes that tipple in the deep, Know no such liberty.

Richard Lovelace / quote

04c. 1649 AD

So much one man can do, That does both act and know.

Andrew Marvell / quote

05c. 1666 AD

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

John Dryden / quote

06c. 1666 AD

Look round the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

John Dryden / quote

07c. 1666 AD

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.

John Dryden / quote

08c. 1666 AD

There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.

John Dryden / quote

09c. 1684 AD

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Isaac Newton / quote

10c. 1683 AD

I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone I know full well, I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.

Tom Brown / quote

11c. 1706 AD

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.

Jonathan Swift / quote

12c. 1695 AD

From hence, let fierce contending nations know What dire effects from civil discord flow.

Joseph Addison / quote

13c. 1713 AD

There taught us how to live; and (oh, too high The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die.

Thomas Tickell / quote

14c. 1716 AD

Say first, of God above or man below, What can we reason but from what we know?

Alexander Pope / quote

15c. 1716 AD

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

Alexander Pope / quote

16c. 1716 AD

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

Alexander Pope / quote

17c. 1716 AD

Know then this truth (enough for man to know),— "Virtue alone is happiness below."

Alexander Pope / quote

18c. 1716 AD

That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

Alexander Pope / quote

19c. 1716 AD

In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

Alexander Pope / quote

20c. 1716 AD

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.

Alexander Pope / quote

21c. 1716 AD

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Alexander Pope / quote

22c. 1716 AD

Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

Alexander Pope / quote

23c. 1716 AD

And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.

Alexander Pope / quote

24c. 1716 AD

Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.

Alexander Pope / quote