John Milton Quotes, Art Quotes, Father Quotes

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

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Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

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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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Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

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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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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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

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This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

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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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Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world Of destined habitation.

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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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His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

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