It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

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Topic

Things get better Hard times

Author

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

Source

A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof

Statement Type

Metaphor, analogy and simile

Language

English

Time

1650 1650s 17th century

Occupation

Historian Clergyman Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Fuller, Thomas. A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the confines thereof with the history of the Old and New Testament acted thereon. London: John Williams, 1650.

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No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

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Time
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Original Citation

Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil. London: Andrew Crooke, 1651, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, edited by Christopher Brooke. Penguin Classics, 2017, pt. 1, ch. 13.

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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.

William Blake

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Elegance of nature Birds Nature Limitations and constraints Human potential

Author

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Source
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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Time
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Original Citation

Blake, William. "The Argument." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. c. 1790.

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