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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possess'd


John Milton

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O my love, my wife!
Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath
Hath had no power yet ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd m...
JOHN DRYDEN Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all
HENRY WOTTON, SR. Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON We've got seven returning starters on offense and seven returning on defense,
DREW PEARSON He hath no power that hath not power to use.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY People always get used to beauty, though. I haven’t gotten used to you just yet
JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though." "I haven't gotten used to you just yet.
JOHN GREEN 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 No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face; Young beauti...
DR. JOHN DONNE If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: ...
BIBLE Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beau...
MARY ARNIM Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beau...
ARISTOTLE Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Authority, though it err like others, hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, that skins the vice off...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet nothing can to nothing fall,
Nor any place be empty quite;
Therefore I think my breast...
JOHN DONNE Impression once created it's difficult to maintain it but once lost it's more difficult to regain it...
KHILAN RAMANI Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment r...
YUSUF ISLAM The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN I think we worked towards that [performance]. A lot of the offense is returning. The chemistry is up...
DARIUS WALKER Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentime...
CAT STEVENS Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condit...
RYAN LILLY Yet, the great ocean hath no tone of power Mightier to reach the soul, in thought's hushed hour, ...
MRS. FELICIA D. HEMANS I think this year our offense is even better with Milton and Frank. I mean, look at the hits those g...
DAN HAREN I think our offense is even better than last year. Milton and Frank, I mean, look at the hits they h...
DAN HAREN This man is free from servile bonds Of hope to rise or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of ...
HENRY WOTTON, SR. No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
HENRY FIELDING This tyrant, whole sole name blisters our tongues, Was once thought honest; you have loved him wel...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Jeremy is our leader. He has struggled with his offense lately, but it was nice to see him regain hi...
RYAN BROWN Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put ...
BALTASAR GRACIAN The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.
GEORGE SANTAYANA I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
ST. AURELIUS AUGUSTINE I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
SAINT AUGUSTINE Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Christmas hath a beauty ... lovelier than the world can show
CHRISTINA ROESETTI The devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Love is a strange feeling where you lose control of yourself and yet feel blissful about it.
APOORVE DUBEY The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.
AMBROSE PHILIPS The flowers anew, returning seasons bring, But faded beauty has no second spring
AMBROSE PHILLIPS The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
AMBROSE PHILIPS St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resur...
ALFRED NOYES The Summer hath his joys, / And Winter his delights. / Though Love and all his pleasures are but toy...
THOMAS CAMPION John has picked up the offense pretty well for us.
ARRINGTON JONES Once you chose the power of love, nothing is impossible.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I have called her beautiful, because it was her moral beauty that at once attracted me. True beauty ...
MAHATMA GANDHI Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.
GEORGE HERBERT The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Though the power be wanting, yet the wish is praiseworthy. [Lat., Ut desint vires tamen est laudan...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined.
JOHN MILTON Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.
STENDHAL I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH They wore their strange beauty like war paint.
HOLLY BLACK To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
THOMAS HARDY Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintell...
JOHN BROADBENT A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear
...
JOHN MILTON Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were de...
BIBLE Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and trouble...
BRAM STOKER Though this be madness, yet there is method
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trust not him that hath once broken faith.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
SIR FRANCIS BACON Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
ANNA KATHARINE GREEN There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd...
SINCLAIR LEWIS Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.
LYDIA M. CHILD He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.
MARY HOWITT I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles a...
JOHN LOGAN Let the power of your love change the world, but never let the problems of this world change the bea...
DEBASISH MRIDHA After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retro...
T.S. ELIOT As to his Wife, John minds St. Paul, He's one/ That hath a Wife, and is as if he'd none.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Our offense is centered around power,
LARRY BOWA People always get used to beauty though.
JOHN GREEN One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything with...
RODNEY COLLIN I do keep faith in people, but once you betray dat trust you can never regain it..
OLASOT For trust not him that hath once broken faith
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He that hath love in his brest, hath spurres in his sides.
GEORGE HERBERT I would venture a guess that Everybody has a life to love, they just haven't uncovered the beauty of...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Love reigns over all, including money, power, disease and death; love lives after all things die.
SCOTTIE SOMERS I love collecting guitars, even though I can't play well. My favourite guitarists are Richie Bla...
KIEFER SUTHERLAND The patriarchy longs for the days 'when men were men' and women were oppressed, subservient - and th...
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