John Milton Quotes, Eye Quotes

Hide me from day's garish eye.

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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

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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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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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From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

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

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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

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The sacred influence of light appears.

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And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

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