Metaphor, analogy and simile

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That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Neil Armstrong

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Armstrong, Neil. Spoken on the Moon. NASA, 20 July 1969.

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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Bulwer-Lytton, Edward. Richelieu. 1839, act 2, sc. 2.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Du contrat social; ou Principes du droit politique [The Social Contract]. 1762.

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Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. "Of the Social Contract." Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings. Translated by Quintin Hoare. Penguin, 2012.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 19:24).

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Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. 6th century B. C., ch. 64, l. 12.

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Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: The Essential Translation of the Ancient Chinese Book of the Tao. Translated by John Minford. Penguin, 2019.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." Poems: 1909-1925. Faber and Gwyer, 1925, pt. 5.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Hollow Men." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, pt. 5.

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Ali, Muhammad. Interviewed by Bob Halloran, CBS, c. 25 Feb. 1964.

In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.

Erasmus

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Erasmus. Adagia. 1536, III, IV, 96.

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Erasmus. The Adages of Erasmus. Edited by William Barker. Translated by Margaret Mann Phillips. U of Toronto P, 2001, III, IV, 96.

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Fuller, Thomas. A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof. John Williams, 1650.

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Cowper, William. "The Timepiece." The Task. Joseph Johnson, 1785, bk. 2, I. 606.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 18, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 18.

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Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. 322 BC, bk 1, ch. 7, sect. 16.

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Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.Translated by Terence Irwin. Hackett Publishing, 2019, bk. 1, ch. 7, sect. 16.

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 7.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 7.

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Hosea 8:7).

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Ovid. Metamorphoses. 8 B. C., bk. 15, l. 234.

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Ovid. Metamorphoses. Oxford UP, 2009, bk. 15, l. 234.

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Blake, William. "The Argument." The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. 1793.

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Blake, William. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. U of California P, 2008.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. 180, bk. 4, sect. 49.

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Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations. Edited and translated by Martin Hammond. Penguin Classics, 2015, book 4, sect. 49.

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Jefferson, Thomas. "Letter to Marquis de Lafayette." 26 Dec. 1820.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925, ch. 9.

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Franklin, Benjamin. Poor Richard's Almanack. 1736.