John Milton Quotes, Grief Quotes, Rivers Quotes

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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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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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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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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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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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

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