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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely


John Milton

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JOHN MILTON Abashed the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her own shape how l...
JOHN MILTON Abashed the devil stood, / And felt how awful goodness is.
JOHN MILTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth --...
WALT WHITMAN What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - h...
WALT WHITMAN Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Virtue is bold and goodness never fearful.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.
JOHN GREEN People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...
ANNE RICE I saw Baby Spice and insisted on talking to her. I tapped her on the shoulder and stood there like a...
DAISY DONOVAN Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One thing I know: For helping me forget how awful the world is, I prefer her to alcohol.
VERONICA ROTH They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lov...
TONI MORRISON Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to the...
EDMUND WALLER For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful...
BIBLE And here in this room, I re-experience the memories again and again it is how wisdom comes and how w...
LOIS LOWRY I wondered if this was how it felt to sell your soul to the devil. I bet there were awesome cookies ...
LISA BROWN ROBERTS The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil.
VOLTAIRE you left
and i wanted you still
yet i deserved someone
who was willing to stay
RUPI KAUR Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in contr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON Beautiful. (in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ Life is better when you’re around. And look at how lovely your handwriting is.
SARAH J. MAAS How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE How goodness heightens beauty!
MILAN KUNDERA People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
ANNE RICE How does water move, and when it moves, what happens? How does land shape water flow and how does wa...
CHAR MILLER Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge or Virtue or Goodness...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS Virtue practiced to be seen is not real virtue; vice which fears to be seen is real vice
CHINESE PROVERBS The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON John turned to her, with streaks of dried blood along his face. “Thank goodness we got the easy jo...
JULIE JAMES Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they...
ELLEN MUTH It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY They felt she's improved a lot. This is the first time this year they've seen her, and they were imp...
ELANA CHASE You are not trying to find the answer to a question, you are simply trying to confirm something you ...
PAULO COELHO People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't kn...
ANNE RICE Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the ...
ELIZABETH GOUDGE And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seein...
BLACK ELK If wickedness is fine with you, how can the goodness shine?
APURVA GAGLANI To say how close John and dad were, I'd call him after meets - all the way up till the end. We discu...
BRIAN GRAY I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodne...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her ...
JASON EVERT And still I stood looking at the house, thinking how happy I should be if I lived there with her, an...
CHARLES DICKENS The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will miss her an awful lot. She is a friend and I have enjoyed working, talking and joking with he...
DENISE THOMAS The evil in the world must not make me doubt the existence of God. There could be no evil if there w...
FULTON J. SHEEN ... I was perturbed by the suspicion that the anguish of love contemned was alloyed in her broken he...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
THOMAS CARLYLE I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must...
CHARLES BRONSON I saw Tina recently and she is so thin! I mean, I give her credit for staying in shape, but the wome...
DAWN WELLS I saw her talent skyrocket and felt this was a natural progression.
DEREK BROWN The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON 'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives, And in their deaths had not divided been.
THOMAS CAMPBELL The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ...
GORDON ATKINSON How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
CRAIG GROESCHEL How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how...
JODI PICOULT After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do...
KAREN ARMSTRONG I absolutely adore Alessandra Rich, I think her dresses are stunning and she really knows how to cut...
JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY Awkward.
That's exactly how it was when we walked over to our sister and stood on each side of ...
MARKUS ZUSAK See, don't just look. Your partner is so much more than their appearance. It's how kind their heart ...
SUZAN BATTAH The big bet for the apparel merchants is not how Easter sales will shape up in April but how the wea...
LAURENCE LEEDS Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote ...
MATTHEW PEARL ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKIN...
JOHN MILTON He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.
DANIEL NAYERI I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn...
CHARLOTTE MUNRO I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETH I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I looked and saw how it was affecting their lives and I saw how their choices made our lives more di...
JENNIFER STEELE How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH And there he stood, holding his head high in silent approval of his crew's fine work.

Her...
JENNIFER MCKEITHEN He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the ...
RON REAGAN John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play t...
JUDY JOHNSON They're trying to create the perception on Wall Street that inventories are in great shape, but how ...
BILL DREHER They were so ignorant, so naive, so resigned to their lot. They refused to believe anything that did...
PAULO COELHO Patience and virtue have been my leader and teacher to learning how life is meant to be
JASMINA SIDEROVSKI How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine—for that was how he saw himself in that mom...
V.S. CARNES What she saw, she felt. Her eyes went straight to her heart.
JERRY SPINELLI But now at last the sacred influence
Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n
Shoots ...
JOHN MILTON The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are livi...
GORE VIDAL How great, my friends, is the virtue of living upon a little!
HORACE The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting the...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Remember how it felt yesterday? What you saw me do?” I snorted and grinned. “Man, do I ever. I r...
MISSY WELSH Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
GIOACHINO ROSSINI How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart, In unre...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY As he touched her skin he felt the wind, as he kissed her mouth mountains broke down, he looked into...
DAVID BENTO GUERRA How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true.
LOGAN P. SMITH How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I worked on Capitol Hill for five years, and I saw how things work and how they do not. I saw the pa...
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