John Milton Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Waiting Quotes

Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

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Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

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What hath night to do with sleep?

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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

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Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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