John Milton Quotes, War Quotes, Fighting Quotes

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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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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