The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

slippers, in the sunshine and with applause.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1678) pt. 1
Now Giant Despair had a wife, and her name was Diffidence.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1678) pt. 1
A grievous crab-tree cudgel.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1678) pt. 1
They came to the Delectable Mountains.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1678) pt. 1
Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1678) pt. 1.
Then I saw that there was a way to Hell, even from the gates of heaven.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1678) pt. 1
So I awoke, and behold it was a dream.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1678) pt. 1
A man that could look no way but downwards, with a muckrake in his hand.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1684) pt. 2.
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1684) pt. 2
He that is down needs fear no fall,
He that is low no pride.
He that is humble ever shall
Have God to be his guide.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1684) pt. 2 ‘Shepherd Boy’s Song’
A very zealous man...difficulties, lions, or Vanity-Fair, he feared not at all: ’Twas only sin,
death, and Hell that was to him a terror.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1684) pt. 2 (of Mr Fearing)
A man there was, tho’ some did count him mad,
The more he cast away, the more he had.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1684) pt. 2
Mercy laboured much for the poor...an ornament to her profession.
‘The Pilgrim’s Progress’ (1684) pt. 2
Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather.
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a pilgrim.