John Milton Quotes, Dream Quotes, Drinking Quotes

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

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Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

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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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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

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And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

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But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

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

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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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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 spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

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But infinite in pardon is my Judge.

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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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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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Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

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Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

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