Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton
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Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
JOHN MILTON Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.
Better ...
JOHN MILTON Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reig...
JOHN MILTON To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n
JOHN MILTON The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in H...
C.S. LEWIS Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:H...
JOHN MILTON I have found consolation, for example, in C. S. Lewis's depiction in The Great Divorce of hell as a ...
PHILIP YANCEY Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON It is better to reenter hell and become an angel, than to remain in heaven and become a demon.
VICTOR HUGO Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote ...
MATTHEW PEARL After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
E.M. FORSTER It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose
ELINOR WYLIE But now at last the sacred influence
Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n
Shoots ...
JOHN MILTON There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torm...
ISAAC ASIMOV I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
R. A. TORREY I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
R.A. TORREY Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON [C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)
STEPHEN LEVINE Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing f...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Can the believing husband in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving wife in Hell? Can the believing fa...
JONATHAN EDWARDS The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON If you aren't Certain in heaven be certain in life and make it better than heaven could ever be
CHRISTOPHER HAYES For this, i give a remembrance to the baby that did not make it to this world. For although i am who...
GARY F EVANS... Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.
ANNE RICE In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Heaven is the gateway to hell, and hell is also the gateway to heaven.
WISDOM ATTAH ELORM I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
PAT BUCKLEY If there is a heaven and hell, then I wonder, are the people in heaven asking god to forgive and sto...
JASON BOURKE To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I still had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere, as far ahea...
RICHARD YATES ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKIN...
JOHN MILTON He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE O solitude, where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst o...
WILLIAM COWPER O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alar...
WILLIAM COWPER The wicked work harder to preach hell than the righteous do to get to heaven.
PROVERB Адът е тук и сега. Раят също. Престани да се плашиш от ад...
ELIF SHAFAK It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
GEORGE HERBERT Hell will be Heaven with Friends, Heaven will be Hell without them.
AMAN JASSAL To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell, is...
C.S. LEWIS It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
EDWARD ALBEE It is better to serve than be served.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have the...
ROBERT SOUTHEY Most people believe in God because they think he's comforting, not because they think he's real.
JOYCE RACHELLE I think our offense is even better than last year. Milton and Frank, I mean, look at the hits they h...
DAN HAREN Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as the...
ELIF SHAFAK One hour of freedom in hell is worth a days work in heaven!
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we kne...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If marriages are said to be made in heaven then why search for grooms in hell.
AMIT ABRAHAM It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It canno...
BUDDHA It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It canno...
BUDDHA BUDDHA The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven
JOHN MILTON It was too lonely to be heaven, and there wouldn't be stars in hell.
KALI WALLACE Ladies let me give you some advice: Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing ...
TUCKER MAX Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all t...
FREDDIE MERCURY 10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer...
SUZY KASSEM Heaven is exactly where you are, hell is exactly where you are, now tell me exactly where you are.
VIKRANT PARSAI It's the difference between heaven and hell.
BEN BAGDIKIAN You have to be saved to get into heaven....you only have to be you to get into hell.
MARILYN MANSON Or, pale dispensers of my Joys and Pains, holding the doors of Heaven and of Hell.
LAURENCE HOPE Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else.
JOHN DAVIDSON Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.
NEAL SHUSTERMAN Heaven is empty and hell is full, wait for me I am also coming there.
VIKRANT PARSAI You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven wa...
TERRY PRATCHETT The bliss of the elect in heaven would not be perfect unless they were able to look across the abyss...
POPE GREGORY I I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
MELISSA ETHERIDGE Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threat'ning to de...
JOHN MILTON That is heaven, this is hell.
CARLO BELLONI A road to hell is wide, beautiful, attractive and easy. A road to heaven is narrow, full of bumps an...
WOHI PURANA Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if...
HUGH HOPPER Sometimes you have to raise a little hell to get some heaven.
JOE MADISON We're in a much better position than we were. This helps us to maintain the professionalism of our j...
MICHELE PATENAUDE Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.
PAULO COELHO ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not g...
CHRISTOPHER LOVE David played incredible to make the final in his first ever grass-court tournament - that's even bet...
LLEYTON HEWITT "Deeds to hell but desires to heaven".
AROOBAAKHEEL We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually clo...
JOHN MCGAHERN If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
DOUG HORTON If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
DOUGLAS HORTON Heaven and Hell are within you. Choose wisely or to hell with you!
TAPAN GHOSH It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
JOSH BILLINGS It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
JOSH BILLINGS The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi...
GARY RUDZ In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart. -John Bunyan (162...
JOHN BUNYAN I'm in hell. I'm separate from everyone and everything. I'm John Travolta in The Boy in the Plastic ...
ANNE CLENDENING "You don't believe in God? You're going to Hell!" As an Atheist, what makes you think that I care wh...
RYAN B LUNDQUIST I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You have been to hell, Ketut?"
He smiled. Of course he's been there.
What's it like in hel...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction
DAVID MITCHELL He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.
ROBERT POLLOK
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JOHN MILTON A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
JOHN MILTON Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
JOHN MILTON Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
JOHN MILTON But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
T...
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JOHN MILTON Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON The rising world of waters dark and deep.
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JOHN MILTON Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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JOHN MILTON Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as act...
JOHN MILTON Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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JOHN MILTON Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
JOHN MILTON Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
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JOHN MILTON Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
JOHN MILTON Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear u...
JOHN MILTON That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, a...
JOHN MILTON O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
JOHN MILTON If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
JOHN MILTON Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; ...
JOHN MILTON What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?
JOHN MILTON Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
JOHN MILTON Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who
could not hear the music.
JOHN MILTON Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
JOHN MILTON Come and trip it as ye go,
On the light fantastic toe.
JOHN MILTON Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
JOHN MILTON Solitude sometimes is best society.
JOHN MILTON Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
JOHN MILTON What hath night to do with sleep?
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JOHN MILTON How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb
JOHN MILTON When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound ...
JOHN MILTON Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON License they mean when they cry liberty.
JOHN MILTON Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,...
JOHN MILTON And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and ...
JOHN MILTON Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not pe...
JOHN MILTON As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's im...
JOHN MILTON Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON With thee conversing I forget all time.
JOHN MILTON He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
JOHN MILTON Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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JOHN MILTON Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
JOHN MILTON Our country is where ever we are well off.
JOHN MILTON What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He tha...
JOHN MILTON To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or begga...
JOHN MILTON When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
JOHN MILTON Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
JOHN MILTON Reason also is choice.
JOHN MILTON For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God a...
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JOHN MILTON A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th...
JOHN MILTON It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
JOHN MILTON Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time ...
JOHN MILTON Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather th...
JOHN MILTON Lords are lordliest in their wine.
JOHN MILTON Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
JOHN MILTON From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scann...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
JOHN MILTON Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
JOHN MILTON And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
JOHN MILTON Tears such as angels weep.
JOHN MILTON Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
JOHN MILTON What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi...
JOHN MILTON Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
JOHN MILTON In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.
JOHN MILTON Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot...
JOHN MILTON If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
M...
JOHN MILTON . . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
JOHN MILTON He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
JOHN MILTON Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
JOHN MILTON Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread.
JOHN MILTON Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
JOHN MILTON In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o...
JOHN MILTON But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-w...
JOHN MILTON While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the bar...
JOHN MILTON So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
JOHN MILTON There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over thi...
JOHN MILTON Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn,
Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,
Of wedde...
JOHN MILTON The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
JOHN MILTON A short retirement urges a sweet return.
JOHN MILTON What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
JOHN MILTON When I consider how my light is spent
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
JOHN MILTON Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
JOHN MILTON Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
JOHN MILTON From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills...
JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of ...
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, o...
JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,
Th...
JOHN MILTON To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge...
JOHN MILTON So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found,
Among the faithless faithful only he.
JOHN MILTON (Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
JOHN MILTON That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense, and as they please
...
JOHN MILTON Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
JOHN MILTON Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
JOHN MILTON A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's ...
JOHN MILTON Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
JOHN MILTON Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
JOHN MILTON Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a...
JOHN MILTON Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
JOHN MILTON Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
JOHN MILTON O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;
Thou wi...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
JOHN MILTON For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is ac...
JOHN MILTON And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
JOHN MILTON Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
JOHN MILTON Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
JOHN MILTON So on he fares, and to the border comes,
Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, crowns...
JOHN MILTON From that high mount of God whence light and shade
Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
JOHN MILTON For such a numerous host
Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, ro...
JOHN MILTON The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
JOHN MILTON These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
JOHN MILTON Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
JOHN MILTON With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o...
JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasures.
JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meander's mar...
JOHN MILTON Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
JOHN MILTON Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras.
JOHN MILTON For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.
JOHN MILTON Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.
JOHN MILTON Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
JOHN MILTON Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
JOHN MILTON For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine...
JOHN MILTON Power ought to serve as a check to power.
JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
JOHN MILTON He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
JOHN MILTON So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
JOHN MILTON If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
JOHN MILTON Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures ...
JOHN MILTON For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher ...
JOHN MILTON Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
JOHN MILTON Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
JOHN MILTON I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
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JOHN MILTON For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ...
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JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON