John Milton Quotes, Eagles Quotes, Two Quotes

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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

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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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Such joy ambition finds.

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But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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