And thou unblemish't form of Chastity, I see ye visibly and now beleeve That he, the Supreme good t'whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistring Guardian if need were To keep my life and honour unassail'd.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms by Anonymous

The destruction of unnecessarily large value to secure a given gratification is not economically sound.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

Whatever it be that immediately possesses the mind and will, self sits like a queen, and sways the sceptre, and orders things at that rate, that God is excluded, and can find no room in all his thoughts (Psalm x. 4): “The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God; God is not in all his thoughts.”
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

I see ye visibly, and now believe That He, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistening guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honor unassailed....
— from From Chaucer to Tennyson With Twenty-Nine Portraits and Selections from Thirty Authors by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

I see ye visibly, and now believe That He, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed. . . .
— from An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton Comprising All the Autobiographic Passages in His Works, the More Explicit Presentations of His Ideas of True Liberty. by John Milton

I see ye visibly, and now believe That He, the Supreme Good, to whom all things ill Are but as slavish officers of vengeance, Would send a glistering guardian, if need were, To keep my life and honour unassailed.... 220 Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
— from Milton's Comus by John Milton

"She's a good girl is Nance," said I aloud, "and you, curse you, are the cause of all my troubles"--this to my new hat.
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough