John Milton Quotes, Song Quotes, Sweet Quotes

Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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Danger will wink on opportunity.

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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

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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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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

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Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

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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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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

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There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

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Reason also is choice.

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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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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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