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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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<strong>The</strong> powerful goodness want: worse need for them.<br />

<strong>The</strong> wise want love; and those who love want wisdom.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 1, l. 625<br />

Peace is in the grave.<br />

<strong>The</strong> grave hides all things beautiful and good:<br />

I am a God and cannot find it there.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 1, l. 638<br />

<strong>The</strong> dust <strong>of</strong> creeds outworn.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 1, l. 697<br />

On a poet’s lips I slept<br />

Dreaming like a love-adept<br />

In the sound his breathing kept.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 1, l. 737<br />

To be<br />

Omnipotent but friendless is to reign.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 2, scene 4, l. 47<br />

He gave man speech, and speech created thought,<br />

Which is the measure <strong>of</strong> the universe.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 2, scene 4, l. 73<br />

My soul is an enchanted boat,<br />

Which, like a sleeping swan, doth float<br />

Upon the silver waves <strong>of</strong> thy sweet singing.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 2, scene 5, l. 72.<br />

<strong>The</strong> loathsome mask has fallen, the man remains<br />

Sceptreless, free, uncircumscribed, but man<br />

Equal, unclassed, tribeless, and nationless,<br />

Exempt from awe, worship, degree, the king<br />

Over himself; just, gentle, wise: but man<br />

Passionless?—no, yet free from guilt or pain,<br />

Which were, for his will made or suffered them,<br />

Nor yet exempt, though ruling them like slaves,<br />

From chance, and death, and mutability,<br />

<strong>The</strong> clogs <strong>of</strong> that which else might oversoar<br />

<strong>The</strong> l<strong>of</strong>tiest star <strong>of</strong> unascended heaven,<br />

Pinnacled dim in the intense inane.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 3, sc. 4, l. 193<br />

A traveller from the cradle to the grave<br />

Through the dim night <strong>of</strong> this immortal day.<br />

‘Prometheus Unbound’ (1820) act 4, l. 551<br />

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;

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