John Milton Quotes, Music Quotes, Sweet Quotes

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

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Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

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And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

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Where more is meant than meets the ear.

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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

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Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

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