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| 5283151621 | The Book of Jonah | Then the men were exceedingly afraid and said to him, "What is this that you have done!" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them. | 0 | |
| 5283151622 | The Book of Jonah | I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you heard my voice. | 1 | |
| 5283151623 | The Book of Jonah | But I with the voice of thanksgiving will sacrifice to you; what I have vowed I will pay. Salvation belongs to the Lord! | 2 | |
| 5283151624 | The Book of Jonah | The word reached[c] the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. | 3 | |
| 5283151625 | The Book of Jonah | Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live. | 4 | |
| 5283151626 | The Book of Jonah | You pity the plant, for which you did not labor, nor did you make it grow, which came into being in a night and perished in a night. | 5 | |
| 5283151627 | The Book of Jonah | He sat under it in the shade, till he should see what would become of the city. | 6 | |
| 5283151628 | Francis Bacon, "The Four Idols" | The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. | 7 | |
| 5283151629 | Francis Bacon, "The Four Idols" | ...it is the peculiar and perpetural error of the human intellect to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives... | 8 | |
| 5283151630 | Francis Bacon, "The Four Idols" | But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses... | 9 | |
| 5283151631 | Francis Bacon, "The Four Idols" | Men become attached to certain particular sciences and speculations... | 10 | |
| 5283151632 | Francis Bacon, "The Four Idols" | ...some minds are stronger and apter to mark the differences of things, others to make their resemblances. | 11 | |
| 5283151633 | Francis Bacon, "The Four Idols" | For men believe that their reasons governs words... | 12 | |
| 5283151634 | Francis Bacon, "The Four Idols" | There are however in words certain degrees of distortion and error. | 13 | |
| 5283151635 | Aristotle, "The Aim of Man" | ...hence the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. | 14 | |
| 5283151636 | Aristotle, "The Aim of Man" | The securing of even one individual's good is cause for rejoicing, but to secure the good of a nation or of a city-state is nobler and more divine. | 15 | |
| 5283151637 | Aristotle, "The Aim of Man" | "The mass of men" reveal their utter slavishness by preferring a life fit only for cattle... | 16 | |
| 5283151638 | Aristotle, "The Aim of Man" | ...what is the highest of all realizable goods? | 17 | |
| 5283151639 | Aristotle, "The Aim of Man" | What definition of good will apply to all the arts? | 18 | |
| 5283151640 | Aristotle, "The Aim of Man" | We are in agreement also with those who identify happiness with virtue... | 19 | |
| 5283151641 | Aristotle, "The Aim of Man" | Nevertheless, happiness plainly requires external goods as well... | 20 | |
| 5283151642 | Aristotle, "The Aim of Man" | ...the soul may be distinguished into two parts, one of which is irrational while the other possesses reason. | 21 | |
| 5283151643 | C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity | Some of the language which chaste women used in Shakespeare's time would have been used in the nineteenth century only by a woman completely abandoned. | 22 | |
| 5283151644 | C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity | There are three things that spread the Christ-life to us: baptism, belief, and...Holy Communion. | 23 | |
| 5283151645 | C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity | ...God is quite definitely good or righteous, a God who takes sides, who loves love and hates hatred, who wants us to behave in one way and not in another. | 24 | |
| 5283151646 | C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity | ...human beings...have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. | 25 | |
| 5283151647 | C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity | Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. | 26 | |
| 5283151648 | C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity | The Son exists because the father exists: but there never was a time before the Father produced the Son. | 27 | |
| 5283151649 | Chaucer, "The Parliament of Fowls" | All this mean I by Love, that my feeling Astonishes with its wondrous working So fiercely that when I on love do think I know not well whether I float or sink. | 28 | |
| 5283151650 | Chaucer, "The Parliament of Fowls" | Who loves the common good and virtue too Shall unto a blissful place yet wend, There where joy is that lasts without an end. | 29 | |
| 5283151651 | Chaucer, "The Parliament of Fowls" | That in my sleep I dreamed there as I lay How that Elder in selfsame array Whom Scipio saw, who long ago had died, Came and stood there right at my bedside. | 30 | |
| 5283151652 | Chaucer, "The Parliament of Fowls" | Fearing error, no wit had I to choose To enter or flee, to save myself or lose. | 31 | |
| 5283151653 | Chaucer, "The Parliament of Fowls" | For this was on Saint Valentine's day, When every fowl comes there his mate to take, | 32 | |
| 5283151654 | Chaucer, "The Parliament of Fowls" | But to the point: Nature had on her hand/ A female eagle... | 33 | |
| 5283151655 | Chaucer, "The Parliament of Fowls" | I choose, and choose with will and heart and thought, The female on your hand so finely wrought, | 34 |
