John Milton Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Hands Quotes

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

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Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

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He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

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Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

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Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

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