Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.


John Milton

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~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
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Dragons plant no trees.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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John Doe No. 2 .
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
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Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
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Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
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Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
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What hath night to do with sleep?
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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With thee conversing I forget all time.
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Tears such as angels weep.
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Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
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The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
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(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
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That golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
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Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
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But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!
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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
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Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
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Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
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And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
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Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
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Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
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With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
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The palpable obscure.
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The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's mar...
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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
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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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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
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Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever plac...
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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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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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So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures ...
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition.
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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
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON