John Milton Quotes, Sound Quotes, Rising Quotes

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

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

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Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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

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This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

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Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

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Antichrist is Mammon's son.

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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

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Wickedness is weakness.

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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

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