John Milton Quotes, Dog Quotes, Owl Quotes

I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

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Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

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Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

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Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

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They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

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Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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