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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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

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Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

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So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

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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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Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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