John Milton Quotes, Lying Quotes, Waste Quotes

What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

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He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

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Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

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Ride the air In whirlwind.

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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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

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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

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Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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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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