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To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n


John Milton

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Every reign must submit to a greater reign.
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WILLIAM COWPER O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alar...
WILLIAM COWPER Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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REBECCA SOLNIT So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.
GRANT MORRISON . . . the purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people.
BILL CLINTON It is impossible for darkness to reign in the presence of a star.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO One hour of freedom in hell is worth a days work in heaven!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER All right, then, I'll go to hell.
MARK TWAIN It is better to reenter hell and become an angel, than to remain in heaven and become a demon.
VICTOR HUGO A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a sk...
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Shoots ...
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POPE BENEDICT XVI To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY You can't reign in obscurity; you can't shine in your comfort zone.
BAMIGBOYE OLUROTIMI The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON In spite of clear budgetary constraints, there hasn't been any attempt to reign in defense spending.
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TUCKER MAX Hell is indefinite.
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HAROLD ROBINSON Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torm...
ISAAC ASIMOV appears to be falling apart, tattered just in the last two years, unfortunately during your reign.
BOB LIVINGSTON I'm in hell. I'm separate from everyone and everything. I'm John Travolta in The Boy in the Plastic ...
ANNE CLENDENING You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
DAVY CROCKETT 10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A mother-in-law is better than a single and childless political persona, though.
VLADIMIR ZHIRINOVSKY Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
JOHN CHRYSOSTOM And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.
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JAMES RHODES I'd rather to be in your hell, than to be alone in a paradise.
HAIFA SANAD I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.
WILLIAM FAULKNER I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose
ELINOR WYLIE Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
GOLDA MEIR Summer"s long enchanted,golden reign is here.
VICTORIA A.S.A BELLEROSE Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool
YIDDISH PROVERB After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
E.M. FORSTER Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
GEORGES BERNANOS The one principle of hell is – “I am my own
GEORGE MACDONALD Love is the only tyrant whose reign is sweet.
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GARY F EVANS... If they were given free reign, they could take that allocation in a few days.
LARRY YETMAN I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
R. A. TORREY I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
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ALEXIA PURDY You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.
ATSUKO ABE Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
NORA ROBERTS I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligen...
MARTIN LUTHER Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Isra...
BIBLE Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
JOHN HENDRICK BANGS An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.
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E.J. PATTEN Don Huston coached basketball at Curtis for years and once told me to let your athletes play, to giv...
LINDSAY BEMIS He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign.
LOUIS XI It's time for the Courtesy Hotel to check-out and end its reign of terror in the West Hempstead comm...
KATE MURRAY Learn to use yours ears more and your mouth less, or your reign will be shorter than I am.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
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Hell is alone, the other figures in it
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T.S. ELIOT There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
JOHN KEATS If there is a worse place than hell, then I am in it.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I believe in deeds, not words.
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JAY ASHER When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful
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SUNDAY ADELAJA or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.
FUZZY ZOELLER For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Eu...
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ABHISHEK RATNA In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to r...
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JOSE PABLO ARELLANO I will reign over a new world!
TSUGUMI OHBA If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.
JIMMY SWAGGART To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!
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JOHN MILTON With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
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JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.
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JOHN MILTON Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
JOHN MILTON Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
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JOHN MILTON Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
JOHN MILTON He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
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JOHN MILTON For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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JOHN MILTON Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
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