John Milton Quotes, Night Quotes, Reign Quotes

A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

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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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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

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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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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

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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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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

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What hath night to do with sleep?

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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

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Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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

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