John Milton Quotes, Music Quotes, Wind Quotes

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

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Danger will wink on opportunity.

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

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.

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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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But infinite in pardon is my Judge.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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