John Milton Quotes, Running Quotes, Grief Quotes

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

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

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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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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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