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“Eve, wrapped in perfect beauty, answered: “My Lord and master, what you order I will obey without question; this is how God orders it, You follow God’s orders and I follow yours: to be aware of that Is a woman’s happiest privilege. When talking with you I lose track of the time,”
― BookCaps, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English

“I love a ballad but even too well, if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.”
― BookCaps, The Winter's Tale In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation and the Original Version)

“But all his goodness did not work on me, And only led to hatred; lifted up so high I rejected being his subject, and thought I could take just one step up And it would put me in the highest place, and in a moment”
― BookCaps, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English

“The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you, Displaying to you their eternal beauties, And still your eye is looking on the ground; Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you.”
― BookCaps, Dante's Purgatory In Plain and Simple English

“Be friendly, but not too friendly. Keep your old friends close, and be careful how you make new friends. Do not be quick to argue, but do not let anyone take you for a coward. Listen to your fellow man, but do not believe everything you hear. Dress your best, but do not overspend on fancy or gaudy clothes. Even the French dress according to their station. Do not borrow or lend money, because you will always lose, either the money or the friend or your sense of pride. And, most importantly, be true to yourself. That way no one can accuse you of being fake. Farewell and know you have my blessing!”
― BookCaps, The Best Known Works of Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English

“There was still needed the masterwork, the culmination Of everything that had been done; a creature who was not low And brutish as the other creatures, but given The holy virtue of reason, who might stand up Straight and upright with a serene face and Govern the rest, having self-knowledge, and that Will allow his soul to talk with Heaven, Gratefully acknowledging where his good comes from And turn his heart, voice and eyes there With devotion, adoring And worshipping the supreme God, who made him the best Of all his works; so the all powerful Eternal Father (for where is he not Present?) spoke to his Son:”
― BookCaps, Paradise Lost In Plain and Simple English

“what can I find to blame? Only the free love of Heaven which was given equally to us all. I curse his love then, since love and hate alike Bring me eternal sorrow.”
― BookCaps, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English

“I forgot the good things I was still getting from him, And did not understand that a grateful mind Is cleared of its debt by being grateful, at the same moment”
― BookCaps, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English

“The Almighty Power threw him Down in flames from the skies of Heaven With terrible flame and destruction, down To the bottomless pit of hell, to live there Bound in unbreakable chains, burned with punishing fire, For having dared challenge the Almighty to battle.   For nine days, as they are measured By men, he and his terrible gang Lay beaten, thrashing in the fiery sea, Defeated though still immortal: But his fate Raised further anger in him; for now the thought Of the happiness he had lost and the pain he now faces Tortures him: he cast around his hate filled eyes Which showed great pain and terror Mixed with unyielding pride and unmoving hate: As far as Angels can see he sees The terrible place, bleak and wild, A horrible dungeon, whose walls all around Burned like one great oven, but from those flames There is no light, but a visible darkness Which only showed things of sadness, Lands of sorrow, miserable shadows, where peace And rest are unknown, where the hope that comes to all Never comes; endless torture Drives on forever, and there is a fiery storm, fed By sulphur which burns forever and never runs out: This was the place God’s justice had made For these rebels, here he had ordered their prison built In total darkness, and their allotted place Was to be as far away from God and Heaven’s light As three times distance from the equator to the Poles.   Oh, how different it was to their former home! There those who fell with him,”
― BookCaps, Paradise Lost In Plain and Simple English