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Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.

—Milton,John

O God, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed: Give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give.

—Book of Common Prayer

Benedicite, omnia opera Domini, Domino; laudate et superexaltate eum in secula. Bless the Lord, all the works of the Lord; praise him and exalt him above all things for ever.

—Bible (Vulgate)

Of no ageönor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Ihave only toomuch of awife inthis art of mine, who has always kept me in tribulation, and my children shall be the works I leave, which, even if theyare naught, will live a while.

—Michelangelo full name Michelangelo Buonarroti

Commit thy works unto the L, and thy thoughts shall be established.

—Bible (Old Testament)

  Faith without works is dead.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   I have seen the future and it works. SeeToynbee 864:30.

—Steffens, (Joseph) Lincoln

I still hope to create a few great works and then like an old child to finish my earthly course somewhere among kind people.

—Behn, Aphra ne¤  e  Amis

Books and the Man I sing, the first who brings The Smithfield Muses to the Ear of Kings. Say great Patricians! (since your selves inspire These wond'rous works; so Jove and Fate require) Say from what cause, in vain decry'd and curst, Still Dunce the second reigns like Dunce the first?

—Pope, Alexander

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And thesea gave up the dead whichwere in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And deathand hell were cast intothelake of fire.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

—Bible (NewTestament)

'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

—Shelley, Percy Bysshe

I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well.

—Book of Common Prayer

   Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Les oeuvres les plus belles sont celles o  u' il y a le moins de matie'  re; plus l'expression se rapproche de la pense¤  e, plus le mot colle dessus et dispara|"t, plus c'est beau. Je crois que l'avenir de l'art est dans ces voies. The most beautiful works are those that have the least content; the closer the expression is to the thought, the more indistinguishable the word from the content, the more beautiful is the work. I believe that the future of art lies in this direction.

—Flaubert, Gustave

No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.

—Grant, Ulysses S(impson)

Of all God's works, which do this world adorn, There is no one more fair and excellent, Then is mans body both for power and form, Whiles it is kept in sober government.

—Spenser, Edmund

Poets paint with words, painters speak with works.

—Carracci, Annibale

All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

—White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)

Laudant illa sed ista legunt. They praise those works, but read these.

—Martial full name MarcusValerius Martialis

I never mentioned a man but with the view Of selling my own works. The tip's a good one, as for literature It gives no man a sinecure.

—Pound, Ezra Loomis

As you, the children of my body, have been my tasks, so too are my other works.

—Kollwitz, Ka«  the

Lo, thro' her works gay nature grieves How brief she is and frail, As ever o'er the falling leaves Autumnal winds prevail. Yet still the philosophic mind Consolatory food can find, And hope her anchorage maintain: We never are deserted quite; 'Tis by succession of delight That love supports his reign.

—Smart, Christopher

To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran; And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

—Wordsworth,William

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First, to discourage the composer from writing any more, and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

—Heifetz,Jascha

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth:Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

—Bible (NewTestament)

I have observed, in the course of a dishonest life, that when a rogue is outlining a treacherous plan, he works harder to convince himself than to move his hearers.

—Fraser, George MacDonald

Countless works in the social sciences reveal the inability of their authors to bear in mind the crucial difference between what may properly be called the logic of discovery and the logic of demonstration. The second isproperlysubjectto rules and prescriptions; the first isn't.

—Nisbet, Robert

Anyone who works is a fool. I don't work: I merely inflict myself on the public.

—Morley, Robert

There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and†there ismore beauty inthe works of a great genius who is ignorant of all the rules of art, than in the works of a little genius, who not only knows but scrupulously observes them.

—Addison,Joseph

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

—Forster, E(dward) M(organ)

   For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

—Milton,John

I am imbued with two deep impressions; the first, that science knows no country; the second, which seems to contradict the first, although it is really a direct consequence of it†that science is the highest personification of the nation. Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

—Pasteur, Louis