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Socrates
He (469-399 B.C) was a Greek Philosopher. .
Quotation Source |
I know nothing except the fact of my | Plato “Apology”
ignorane
The unexamined life is not worth living | Plato "Crito"
It is never right to do wrong or to requite
wrong with wrong or when we suffer
evil to defend
It is perfectly certain that the soul is Plato "Apology"
immortal and imperishable, and our
souls will actually exist
in another worid. al
Aristotle
He (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher.
Quotation Source
We make war that we may Nicomachean Ethics
live in peace.
Probable impossibilities are Poetics
to be preferred improbable
possibilities.
Man is by nature a political
animal.(35 BCS)
He who is unable to live in
society, or who has no
Politics need because he is
sufficient for himself, must
be either a beast or a god.
Politics
PoliticsCowards die many times before their death,
To be, or not to be; that is the question,
There are more things in heaven and earth,
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
Horatio
Thou art not so unkind
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy [Hamlet
Brevity is the soul of wit, Hamlet
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, As you like It
As man’s ingratitude.
this 1 little hand,
All the world’s a stage, As you like It
And all the men and women merely
players
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten |Macbeth
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
tis a tale Told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing
Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
‘Sweet are the uses of, adversity
All the word’s stage,
And all the men and Women merely players
The have their exist and their entrance
‘And each man in his time plays Many parts
His act being eyen ages’
Come hither, come hither, come hither
Here shall he sce ,
No enemy But winter and tough weather
A voune man Gan oe
A young man married is a man that’s mare
Macbeth
All’s well that ends well
As You like It
As You like It
Under the Green Wood Tree}
Frailty the name is woman
Hamlet
“Why, then, tis none to you, for there is nothing
either good or bad, but thinking makes it so,"
Hamlet (475¢ BCS)r
MIRACLE..BCS.ENGLISH LITERATURE,
587
He (1564-1593) was an English playwright and poet.
Quotation
Source
Come live with me, and be my love.
And we will all the pleasure prove,
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.|
I That valley, groves, hills and tields,
Woods or sleepy mountain yields.
The passionate shepherd to
his love.
Was this the face that lanch’d a thousand
ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Dr. Faustus (41° BCS]
Francis Bacon
He (1561-1626) was an English lawyer, cou
tier, philosopher and essayist.
Quotation
Source
A crowd is not company, and faces are
but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a
|tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Of Friendship (Essay)
Wives are young men’s mistresses,
companions for middle age, and old
men’s nurses.
Some books are to be tasted, others
to be swallowed, and some few to
be chewed and digested. *
Reading maketh a full man; conference
a ready man; and writing an-exact man
Of Marriage and the Single Life]
Of Studies
Of Studies
Histories make men wise; poets
witty; trie Of Studies mathematics
subtle; natural philosophy, deep;
moral, grave; logic and rhetoric,
able to contend.
Of Studies
A mixture of lie doth ever add pleasure
Opportunity makes a thief
Of Truth Rip
Advice to the earth of EssexJohn Donne
He (1572 - 1631) was an English poet
t.
If our two loves be one, or, thou and T
Love so alike, that none do slacken,
none can die.
Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why
dost thou thus.
The Good Morrow
The Sun rising
Nothing else is.
For ; God’s sake ; hold your tongue,
and Let me love.
Love, all alike, no season knows, The Sun rising
nor clime
‘Nor ; hours, days, months, which
are the rags of time,
She’s all states, and all princes I The Sun rising
| The Canonization
ohn Milton
He (1608-1674) was an English epic poet.
| Quotation Source
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven _|Paradise Lost
oo -This childhood shows the man, [Paradise Regained
As morning shows the daj Samson Agonistes
Just are the ways of god,
And justifiable to men;
J Unless there be who think not God at all
Love quarrels oft in pleasing cqncordjend.
|
Samson Agonistes
A good book is trie precious life-blood of
a master spirt,
Embalmed and treasured up on purpose
to a life.
Give me the liberty to know, to utter,
and to argue
Freely according to conscience, above
all liberties.
Samson Agonistes
Areopagitica
|AreopagiticaMIRACLE..BCS. ENGLISH LITERATURE...
Alexander Pope
He (1688 -1744) was an 18th-century English poet.
To err is human; to forgive is’ divine
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread_| An Essay on Criticism
A little learning is a dangerous thing
Villiam. rth
He (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet.
[Quotation Source
Ten thousands saw I ata glance _| I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Child is the father of the Man | My Heart Leaps up When I Behold
Behold her, single in the field,
you solitary Highland Lass! The Solitary Reaper
S.T. Coleridge
He (1772-1834) was an English Romantic poct.
Quotation Source
Alone, alone , all, all alone The Rime of The Ancient
Alone on a wide, wide sea Mariner
Water, water, everywhere The Rime of The Ancient
Not a drop to drink Mariner
He prayeth best, who loveth best The Rime of The Ancient
All things both great and small Mariner
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He (1792-1822) was an English Romantic poet.
Quotation Source"
Tam daughter of Earth and Water, The Cloud |
And the nursing of the sky.
If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?) Ode to the West Wind
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud, | Ode to the West Wind
I flat upon thorns of life! I bleed.
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest | To a Skylark
Poets are the unacknowledged A Defence of Poetry world.
legislators.of the world LMIRACLE, BCS ENGLISH LITERATURE,
John Keats
He (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet.
Quotation Source
“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”- That is all, | Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ye know on earth, and all you need to know.
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard | Ode on a Grecian Urn
Are sweeter;
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains | Ode to a Nightingale
My sense, as though of hemlock had drunk.
She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die; | Ode on Melancholy
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever Endymion
Gladstone
He (1809-1998) was a Former British Prime Minister and Liberal politician.
Quotation Source
Justice delayed is justice denied Legal Maxim
Justice hurried is justice buried
ean Jacques Rousseau
He (1712-1778) was a French philosopher and novelist.
uotation Source
Man is born free, and everywhere Social Contract
he is in chains
Lord Byron
Source
Don Juan
Pleasure’s sin and sometimes sin’s a pleasure| Don Juan
Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart Don Juan
is woman’s whole existenceEdmund Burke
He (1729-1797) was an Irish born Whig politician and learned poet.
Quotation Source
Tyrants seldom want pretext. Personal Letter to a National
Assembly Member
Between crafts and credulity, Personal Letter to the Sheri!
the voice of reason is stifled. of Bristol.
+e =
A perfect democracy is therefore
the most shameless thing in the world.
Reflection on the Revolution
in France
The greater the power, the more Speech on the Middlesex
dangerous the abuse. Election
The people are the masters. Speech, Hansar
Matthew Arnold
He (1822-1888) was a Victorian poet. “Dover Beach”, “Rugby
Chapel", "The Scholar Gipsy", Thirsis are his famous poems.
A few sad smiles;
Poetry is a criticism of life.
Quotation Source
The sea of faith was once, Dover Beach
too at the full, and round
earth’s shore
Love lends life a little grace Mycemius
Arnold’s view
Neil Armstrong
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men | Sohrab and Rustum
mena! sabe ecee athe et DS Dahil Paabobbhcetee ereh ate ae
He (1930-2012) an American Astronaut, was first to land in the
moon in the 21st July, 1969,
‘That’s one small step for man, one
giant leap for mankind
Source
New York TimesNapoleon B: rte
He (1769-1821) was a Former French emperor and famous politician,
[Quotation
Source
The career open to the talents.
England is a nation of Shopkeepers
Give us good mothers and I shall
give you good nation
Impossible is a word to be found
only in the dictionary of fools
Robert Frost
He (1874 -1963) was an American poet.
[Quotation
|The woods are lovely, dark and deep
But I have promises to keep,
|And miles to go before I sleep
ion a Snowy Evening
|Good fences make good neighbours
Thomas Gray
Source
Stopping by Woods
Mending wall
He (1716 - 1771) was an English poet.
Quotation
Source
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
I And waste its sweetness on the desert air
Elegy Written in a
country ChurchyardLE..BCS. ENGLISH. LITERATURE
William Blake
AYN
He (1757-1827) was an English poet and painter in romantic period,
Quotation Source
The road of excess leads to the palace |The Marriage and
of wisdom
To Mercy Pity Peace and Lovers The Divine Image
All pray in their distress
Important Quotations from Different Disciplines
"[ have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true mean-
ing of its creed that all men are created equal”
— Martin Luther King.
"They think too little who talk too much" — Dryden
"Superstition is a religion of feeble minded person" — Edmund Burke
East is East and West is West Never the twain shall meet.
—Rudyard Kipling
Knowledge is power —Hobbes
Give me good mothers and I shall give you a good nation —Napoleon.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man and writing an
exact man —Francis Bacon.
Man is by nature a political animal— —Aristotle.
The unexamined life is not worth living —Socrates.
Religion is the opium of the people —Karl Marks.
Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains —Rousseau.
Liberty consists in doing what one desires —John Stuart Mill.
A face that cannot smile is never good — Martial .
Ability is a poor man’s wealth —M Wern
Absence of occupation is not rest, a mind quite vacant, is a mind
deserted Cowper
Miracle English Literature - 3824.
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—Franklin
a is the daughter of ignorance
Economy is half the battle of life, it is not so hard to earn money as to
spend it well purgeon
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty —Jefferson
Example is better than precept — S. Smiles
God didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent Him —Hobbes
. God is on the side of big battalions —George Bernard Shaw
. God made the country and man made the town —Cowper
. Government of the people , by the people , for the people
—Abraham Lincoin
You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even fool
some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all the people all
time —Abraham Lincoln
Habit if not resisted, soon becomes it necessity — Saint Augustine
Help thyself and God will help-thee —Herbert
Humanity is the solid foundation of all virtue — Confucius
I have a dream that one day this nation will live out the true meaning
of its creed that all men are created equal. © —Martin Luther King.
T shall not part with as much land by the point of a neddle
— Isha Khan
Life is not life without delight — Rabindranath Tagore.
Live and let live is a rule of common justice — Lord Mansfield
Good face is the best letter of recommendation —Queen Elizabeth
Man poses, God disposes —Thomas A Kempis
Man's conscience is the oracle of God — Lord Byron
Men are woman’s playthings, woman is the devil's — Victor Hugo
|. No man can be wise on empty stomach — George Eliot
None but a fool is always right — Hare
One should eat to live, not live to eat —Franklin
Pain is the outcome of sin — Gautama Buddha
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweeter — Rousseau
Philosophy is the art of living — Plutarch
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely
—Lord Action55.
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‘58.
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160.
461.
062.
—Hazlitt
. Prejudice is the reason of fools —Voltaire
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life —H. W Beecher
Self suffering is the truest test of sincerity — Gandhi
Self-preservation is the first law of nature —Samuel Butler
Speech is great, but silence is greater — Carlyle
Success makes success, as money makes money — Chamfort
They think too little who talk much —Dryden
“T will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older
than I am.” ........ written by — Francis Bacon
“But I have promises to keep And miles to go before I sleep’.
wt These lines are from “Stopping by the 54.Woods on a Snowy
Evening” written by — Robert Frost
A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast a flat lunch, and a miserable din-
ne} ritten by — Francis Bacon
“Thus [ enter ; and thus I go”............ a quotation from “The Patriot”
written by — Robert Browning.
"Shepherd to His Love" written by — Christopher Marlowe
‘The government is the best which governs least’
— Henry David Thoreau
.. is the quotation from— “Julius Ceaser” written by
—William Shakespeare
“Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud; I fall upon the thors of life! I
“Veni, vidi, vic’
bleed. ‘These lines were from “Ode to the West Wind’ written by
— PB. Shelley
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely” was
Stated by es. Lord Acton
“Fair daffodils! we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attained his noon.” —
ee These lines are from ‘To Daffodils” — Robert Herrick
“Popular opinion is the greatest lie” — Thomas Carlyle
“‘Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.” ....... —Franklin
“Death is the golden key that opens the places of eternity” —John Milton. “Fame is the perfume of heroic deed: —- Socrate,
“Help thyself, and God will help them” — Herben
“J slept and dreamed that life was beauty, I waked and found that life
was duty.” —S. Hooper
69. “Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind”. —Shakespeare
Important Questions
1. "For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love" occurs in a novel by;
[42th Bes)
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© Somerset Maugham — @ Rabindranath Tagore Ans :@
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2. "Was this the face that lanch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless,
towers of Ilium?' Who speaks the famous lines? /41s: BCS)
@ Caesar © Antony
© Faustus @ Romeo Ans :@
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3. ‘Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, bul
thinking makes it so.' This extract is taken from the drama—/4/st BCS]
@ King Lear © Macbeth
© As You Like It @ Hamlet Ans :@
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thinking makes it so.' See orsfrnat Rrore 5% Hamlet CAF CTI RAC!
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towers of Ilium?’ Who speaks the famous lines? /41st BCS)
@ Caesar ® Antony
© Faustus @ Romeo Ans. ISH.LITERATURE. 597
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5. ‘Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but
thinking makes it so.' This extract is taken from the drama—/4/st BCS]
@ King Lear @® Macbeth
© As You Like It @ Hamlet Ans:®
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thinking makes it so.' Gf cra racat Frame AEF Hamlet CAF CP RAK 1
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and Guildenstern)-C# Beg 80a 4 BEE Bea | TA TS “OTT TH Te SRS AZ;
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6. "Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss."
The sentence has been taken from the play— [40st BCS)
@ Romeo and Juliet @® Caesar and Cleopatra
© Doctor Faustus @ Antony and Cleopatra Ans:©
wrat : 49 fre mene fecsrers at ‘Doctor Faustus' TOCA CX AEA IT
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7. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet"—Who said this? 40st BCS)
@ Juliet @® Romeo
© Portia @ Rosaling Ans:@
wreait: a Romeo and Juliet’ WtFs WF Romeo Montague-44 FEN |
8. "Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole exis-
tence"—This is taken from the poem of— /40s: BCS]
@ PB. Shelly @® Lord Byron
© John kents @ Edmund Spemser Ans:®
Wren : ale AS AAAAT (9 Ieb-Ih28) FRE FFT Don Juan'- 4 quotation.
9. ‘All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'—Who said
this? (40st BCS]
@ Macbeth @® Lady Macbeth
© Lady Macduff @ Macduff Ans:®
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a Lady Macbeth YQPrerT CFE BCACET |
10. ‘Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too'—Who wrote this? [40st BCS]
®@ William Wordsworth ® Robert Browning
© John Keats @ Samuel Coleridge Ans:©
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