John Milton Quotes, Glory Quotes

For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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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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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

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The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

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Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

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Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

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