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1. “In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.”

John Milton

Labor, Mortality, Human Condition, Biblical Allusion, Life Cycle

2. “The rising world of waters dark and deep.”

John Milton

Creation, Chaos, Depth, Primordial Waters, Biblical Allusion

3. “The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Good And Evil, Temptation, Wisdom, Biblical Allusion

4. “Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.”

John Milton

Mortality, Origin, Human Condition, Cycle Of Life, Biblical Allusion

5. “It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Good And Evil, Temptation, Fall Of Man, Biblical Allusion

6. “Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.”

John Milton

Hell, Evil, Hierarchy, Chaos, Biblical Allusion

7. “So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.”

John Milton

Temptation, Fall Of Man, Deception, Sin, Biblical Allusion

8. “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty!”

William Blake

Divinity, Worship, Awe, Philosophical Exclamation, Spiritual Reverence, Biblical Allusion

9. “Angels are happier than men and devils, because they are not always prying after good and evil in one another, and eating the tree of knowledge for Satan's gratification.”

William Blake

Happiness, Morality, Knowledge, Philosophical Observation, Spiritual Insight, Biblical Allusion

10. “Two trees – knowledge and life. You eat of the tree of knowledge, and you will surely die. You eat of the tree of life, and you remain a child in the garden forever, undying.”

Orson Scott Card

Knowledge, Innocence, Mortality, Choice, Biblical Allusion, Philosophical Dilemma

11. “Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.”

Robert Frost

Human Judgment, Moral Reflection, Biblical Allusion, Judgment, Reflection, Moral

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