John Milton Quotes, Life Quotes, Tree Quotes

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

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So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To withered weak and grey.

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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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

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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

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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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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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