Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.
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Walk...
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Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
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You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
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Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.
- John Ruskin,
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
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Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
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So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
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no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
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I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
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Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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It is fear that first brought gods into the world.
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He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE From oneness, He has brought forth the countless multitudes. O Nanak, they shall merge into the One ...
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The Q...
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A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed re...
LIONEL SHRIVER I brought the film like a flower to the world.
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Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
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My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to ...
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Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.
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He has been disassembled by her. And if she has brought him to this, what has he brought her to?
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«Brixie wasn’t talking to him, or listening to him. Nothing like that at all. Brixie was off in h...
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the ...
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
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Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kil...
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid...
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The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and comm...
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For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down...
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Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libe...
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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
JOHN MILTON
Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
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Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
JOHN MILTON
But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
T...
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
JOHN MILTON
Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
JOHN MILTON
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flo...
JOHN MILTON
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills r...
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as act...
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON
These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bl...
JOHN MILTON
Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
JOHN MILTON
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed...
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
JOHN MILTON
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
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Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
JOHN MILTON
Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear u...
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That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, a...
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O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
JOHN MILTON
If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
JOHN MILTON
Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; ...
JOHN MILTON
What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
JOHN MILTON
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
JOHN MILTON
Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who
could not hear the music.
JOHN MILTON
Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
JOHN MILTON
Come and trip it as ye go,
On the light fantastic toe.
JOHN MILTON
Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
JOHN MILTON
Solitude sometimes is best society.
JOHN MILTON
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
JOHN MILTON
What hath night to do with sleep?
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moment...
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,...
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How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound ...
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Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON
License they mean when they cry liberty.
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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,...
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And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and ...
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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not pe...
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As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's im...
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON
With thee conversing I forget all time.
JOHN MILTON
He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON
But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
JOHN MILTON
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, blo...
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
JOHN MILTON
Our country is where ever we are well off.
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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He tha...
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or begga...
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When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
JOHN MILTON
Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
JOHN MILTON
Reason also is choice.
JOHN MILTON
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God a...
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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid...
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A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th...
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It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time ...
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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
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'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere...
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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
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Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather th...
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
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From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scann...
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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
JOHN MILTON
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
JOHN MILTON
Tears such as angels weep.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
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But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi...
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot...
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If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
M...
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. . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
JOHN MILTON
He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
JOHN MILTON
Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
JOHN MILTON
Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread.
JOHN MILTON
Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
JOHN MILTON
In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o...
JOHN MILTON
But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-w...
JOHN MILTON
While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the bar...
JOHN MILTON
So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
JOHN MILTON
There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over thi...
JOHN MILTON
Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
JOHN MILTON
This is the month, and this the happy morn,
Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,
Of wedde...
JOHN MILTON
The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
JOHN MILTON
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
JOHN MILTON
When I consider how my light is spent
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
JOHN MILTON
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
JOHN MILTON
Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
JOHN MILTON
From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
...
JOHN MILTON
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
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'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON
'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
JOHN MILTON
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills...
JOHN MILTON
O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of ...
JOHN MILTON
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, o...
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
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And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,
Th...
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To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge...
JOHN MILTON
So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.
JOHN MILTON
(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
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That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON
All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense, and as they please
...
JOHN MILTON
Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
JOHN MILTON
Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
JOHN MILTON
But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON
But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
JOHN MILTON
A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's ...
JOHN MILTON
Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
JOHN MILTON
Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
JOHN MILTON
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a...
JOHN MILTON
Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
JOHN MILTON
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
JOHN MILTON
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;
Thou wi...
JOHN MILTON
Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON
The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON
Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
JOHN MILTON
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is ac...
JOHN MILTON
And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
JOHN MILTON
Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
JOHN MILTON
Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
JOHN MILTON
So on he fares, and to the border comes,
Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, crowns...
JOHN MILTON
From that high mount of God whence light and shade
Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
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For such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, ro...
JOHN MILTON
The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
JOHN MILTON
These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
JOHN MILTON
Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
JOHN MILTON
With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON
So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o...
JOHN MILTON
The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON
The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasures.
JOHN MILTON
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meander's mar...
JOHN MILTON
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
JOHN MILTON
Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras.
JOHN MILTON
For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.
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.
JOHN MILTON
Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON
Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
JOHN MILTON
For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine...
JOHN MILTON
Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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?
JOHN MILTON
So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
JOHN MILTON
If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
JOHN MILTON
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures ...
JOHN MILTON
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher ...
JOHN MILTON
Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
JOHN MILTON
Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
JOHN MILTON
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON
In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON
Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON
When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON
Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
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.
JOHN MILTON
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON
Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ...
JOHN MILTON
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON