Dark with excessive bright.


John Milton

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...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots s there are in the bright ones.
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We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.
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John Goodman's pretty dark - I love John Goodman.
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Behind every dark storm is a bright rainbow.
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It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.
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I was standing in a crop formation north of Milton. I look up and I see this super-bright light up t...
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There's a bright spot in every dark cloud.
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It can be bright orange to dark purple to green.
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Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.
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At the end of every dark storm is a bright rainbow.
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For a cheerful spirit, a dark street is just another bright street!
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And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon m...
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Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark
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In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God.
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A dark past doesn't disqualify you from a chance at a bright future.
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Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I...
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Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
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By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!
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The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan's idyllic Beulah-or a dark Gehenna.
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I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-fol...
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It has a rich, dark sound as opposed to a Stradivarius, which is very bright.
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My older brother John lived in Technicolor; he taught me to wear bright colors and to love life.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yel...
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Anyone who's ever gone from warm and bright to cold and dark knows how I felt.
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Within all the dark lies, there is a bright truth, you just have to find it
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
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But now at last the sacred influence
Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n
Shoots ...
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They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
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Bright and fierce and fickle is the South,/ And dark and true and tender is the North.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON
Looking on the bright side of life is better than looking on the dark side of despair.
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Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel ...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark. (Act 5, Scene 2)
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I'd like see an ad with somebody listening to Mozart and reading Milton or Shakespeare.
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
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But first whom shall we send
In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? W...
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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This really was a very bright moment on a very dark day. They inspire all of us to take responsibili...
ANDREA MEDITCH
For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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When life gets dark, that's when stars appear among us. Shine bright, beautiful ones. Throw light fr...
JOHN MARK GREEN
You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.
TRUTH DEVOUR
There are just as many stories to be told in the dark spots as there are in the bright ones.
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My message is that if you enjoy it and are in the mood for it, eating dark chocolate is fine. Just d...
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Excessive praise arises from the same bigotry matrix as excessive criticism.
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night...
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Jeremiah refutes the popular, modern notion that the end of religion is an integrated personality, f...
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If this phrase of the "balance of power" is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war w...
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Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the st...
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I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the gre...
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England is the mother of parliaments.
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Force is not a remedy.
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But there is one thing which we are responsible for, and that is for our sympathies, for the manner...
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So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at ...
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Popular applause veers with the wind.
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If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext fo...
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If this phrase of the balance of power is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will...
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The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.
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As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Iri...
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It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and...
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I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.
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Any Reform Bill which is worth a moment's thought, or the smallest effort to carry it, must at l...
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My opinion is that the Northern States will manage somehow to muddle through.
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The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings...
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The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.
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If this phrase of the ''balance of power'' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war ...
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We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and...
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Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is ...
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The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the pos...
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I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, an...
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We just need everybody to step it up now that Milton is out.
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Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
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Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you wi...
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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and...
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I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot; If that wherein my hopes delight Be be...
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...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combusti...
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I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not.
HENRY ALFORD
Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment th...
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When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank l...
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It's like a blueberry White Russian,' John said, now on his third spoonful.
'It tastes exactly ...
ERIC SPITZNAGEL
Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
DEMOSTHENES
The collapse was excessive compared with the outlook of economies in the region.
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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
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Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
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The palpable obscure.
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Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.
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For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
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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.
JOHN MILTON
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
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 ...
JOHN MILTON
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON