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Year	Quote	Type	Author or Title	% Correct
1478	Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour	Verse (collection of stories)	Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales	77%
1667	Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world	Poem (epic)	John Milton, Paradise Lost	74%
1603	For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause	Drama	William Shakespeare, Hamlet	74%
1599	The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven	Drama	William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice	74%
1816	"In Xanadu did [...]" "And close your eyes with holy dread For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise."	Poem	Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan	68%
1719	I was exceedingly surprised, with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen in the sand.	Novel	Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe	58%
1726	My Reconcilement to the Yahoo-kind in general might not be so difficult, if [...]	Satire	Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels	57%
1633	Death be not proud, though some have called thee, mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so	Poem	John Donne, Sonnet X (Death Be Not Proud)	56%
1818	I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert [...]"	Poem	Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias	55%
1794	[...] In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?	Poem	William Blake, The Tyger	55%
1820	"Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time" "[...] Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."	Poem (Ode)	John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn	51%
1818	A THING of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases;	Poem	John Keats, Endymion	50%
1922	APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.	Poem	T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land	48%
1604	Was this the face that launched a thousand ships / And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?	Drama	Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus	45%
1820	O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead	Poem (Ode)	Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind	40%
1920	Let us go then you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky, like a patient etherized upon a table	Poem	T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock	36%
1599	Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That Valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields.	Poem	Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love	35%
1814	And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.	Poem	Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty	35%
1750	"The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea" "[...] (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his Father and his God."	Poem (Elegy)	Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard	35%
1590	But on his breast a bloudie Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord	Epic Poem	Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene	34%
1928	That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees, —Those dying generations—at their song	Poem	W. B. Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium	33%
1633	For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love, Or chide my palsy, or my gout	Poem	John Donne, The Canonization	32%
1712	What dire offence from amorous causes springs, what mighty contests rise from trivial things	Poem	Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock	28%
1843	[violent feelings] produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the 'Pathetic Fallacy'	Art Criticism	John Ruskin, Modern Painters	28%
1734	Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man	Poem	Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man	26%
1612	Ambition is like choler; which is an humor that maketh men active, earnest, full of alacrity, and stirring, if it be not stopped.	Essay	Francis Bacon, Of Ambition	26%
c. 1650	For Fate with jealous eye does see Two perfect loves, nor lets them close; Their union would her ruin be, And her tyrannic pow’r depose.	Poem	Andrew Marvell, The Definition of Love	21%
1850	[...] leaned out From the gold bar of Heaven; Her eyes were deeper than the depth Of waters stilled at even;" " [...] And laid her face between her hands And wept, (I heard her tears)"	Poem	Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Blessed Damozel	21%
1888	I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.	Poem	William Earnest Henley, Invictus	21%
c. 1855	One face looks out from all his canvasses, One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans; We found her hidden just behind those screens, That mirror gave back all her loveliness.	Poem	Christina Rossetti, In an Artist’s Studio	17%
1855	Wandering between two worlds, one dead The other powerless to be born, With nowhere yet to rest my head Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.	Poem	Matthew Arnold, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse	16%