Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton
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That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
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ELAINE PAGELS Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
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JACK KEROUAC Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
HORACE Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom
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JOHN OWEN Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote ...
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JOHN MILTON He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...
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DAN HENNING He would drive his strength against a mountain and plunge his strength against the sea...but know th...
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UNKNOWN A small key opens big doors.
TURKISH PROVERB Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a sp...
JEANETTE WINTERSON The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their effi...
JOHN OWEN They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence
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STEVEN MOFFAT Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.
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JOHN OWEN Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A ma...
EUGENE IONESCO The river of knowledge has no depth.
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RICHELLE MEAD Adrian!You Used compulsion on that guy. That.... I mean, it's....."
"Awesome?Yeah,I Know
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JOHN PAUL WARREN A golden key will open every lock.
YIDDISH PROVERB A golden key can open any door.
UNKNOWN A key that opens many locks is worth buying.
A lock that can be opened with many keys isn't.
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EUGENE KENNEDY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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DAVID BYRNE The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.
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JOHN O'DONOHUE From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.
EDVARD MUNCH Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and...
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J. R. R. TOLKIEN A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.
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JAMES CASH PENNEY On the Palace of Westminster: There is a sense of entitlement that pervades this place like a colour...
CAROLINE LUCAS For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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ARUNDHATI ROY I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship
JOHN PAUL WARREN There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.
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ALAN SIEGEL She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... In the end, night calls and we go. Mind, body and soul we go.
MARTY RUBIN Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA I am 'the voice of one crying out in the desert,
"Make straight the way of the Lord,
ANONYMOUS I am ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,
“Make straight the way of the Lord,
ANONYMOUS A box without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
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With sanctity of reason.
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By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
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Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear u...
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Justification towards God, a...
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Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
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The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
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Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
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On the light fantastic toe.
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In a light fantastic round.
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Of wisdom, ...
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L...
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As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
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That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
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The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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...
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She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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JOHN MILTON In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON Human face divine.
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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.
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Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ...
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Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON