"He that has light within his own clear……" — John Milton

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• Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s.… — James Buchan
• Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous… — William S. Burroughs
• It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's… — Allan Bloom
• Thus, when the lamp that lighted The traveller at first goes out, He feels awhile benighted, And looks around in… — Charles Lamb
• Education has been given us from above for the purpose of bringing to the benighted the knowledge of the Saviour. — David Livingstone
• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the… — John Milton
• There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling,… — Thomas Carlyle
• Indeed the early history of rocket design could be read as the simple desire to get the rocket to function… — Norman Mailer
• Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• It's important to debunk the myths of Africa being this benighted continent civilized only when white people arrived. In fact,… — Henry Louis Gates
• The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had… — Marcel Proust
• In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is… — Will Self

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