John Milton Quotes, Eye Quotes

Hide me from day's garish eye.

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

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But infinite in pardon is my Judge.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

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What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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To live a life half dead, a living death.

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

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