His tongue dropt manna, and could make the worse appear the better reason
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All was false and hollow, though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worst appear
The b...
THOMAS MIDDLETON But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
T...
JOHN MILTON It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.
LAERTIUS DIOGENES Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the bett...
GEORGE SANTAYANA For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et S...
QUINTILIAN (MARCUS FABIUS QUINTILIAN) Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shoc...
MAYA ANGELOU Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.
THOMAS CAMPBELL And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote ...
MATTHEW PEARL 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 David played incredible to make the final in his first ever grass-court tournament - that's even bet...
LLEYTON HEWITT It was the wife, John thought. And she was giving this tough guy a tongue-lashing. And the man was t...
J.R. WARD Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it see...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Better the feet slip then the tongue.
[Better the feet slip than the tongue.]
GEORGE HERBERT People change everyday. It could be for the better or worse.
ADNAN BAHATTI The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother-and the public.
WALTER WINCHELL Make haste; the better foot before. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I told the jury if they couldn't show mercy for John Moxley, then they could show mercy for themselv...
GREG DENUE A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages.
SOURCE UNKNOWN John was so wonderful in the episodes that the best homage we could make to his contribution to the ...
JOHN WELLS ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other...
JOHN LENNON A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and...
ARTHUR MILLER John (the Baptist) stands as prophets do to this very day, as an unyielding presence unsettling us a...
EUGENE KENNEDY So on the tip of his subduing tongue
All kinds of arguments and question deep,
All replication...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably a...
HUGH LAURIE The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON Some of the reasons John McCain lost in 2008 were his lackluster campaign, his refusal to showcase O...
DAVID LIMBAUGH We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL A Congressman is never any better than his roads, and sometimes worse.
WILL ROGERS How does knowing 'things could be worse' than what I already deem awful make me feel any bett...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Open your mind. Accept differences. Yearn for peace. Heal the world.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better...
LINDA RONSTADT 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 Correction is the tool for creating better from worse. Make the best use of it!
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others feel better is much ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Twist a tongue, and tongue a twist how many twists can a tongue twister twist around their twisting ...
JAZZ FEYLYNN What could be more fundamental to our sense of meaning and purpose than a conception of whether the ...
STEVEN PINKER In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By m...
LEV GROSSMAN Better the foot slip than the tongue.
FRENCH PROVERB He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his ton...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It’s is not a surprising news that manna should fall from heaven in these days. But this manna wil...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I know John Kerry well, ... I spent six years working with him in the Senate, and we spent a lot of ...
JOHN EDWARDS Captain Midlands: "I met the real you once."
John (Lennon) the Skrull: "You're meeting the real...
PAUL CORNELL I knew there was no point in debating a man such as this. The world bent and contorted itself to fit...
DAVID LISS If these doors are open for any reason, then you've had it. ... All you need is bashing by the sea a...
RICHARD CLAYTON The new age consciousness, the new-agers say will make us better, is really making us worse.
AARON CONN Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know...
HOWARD DEAN There could not be a better person for such an important position than John Roberts,
JAY SEKULOW Drunkenness is when the tongue walks on stilts and reason goes forward under half a sail.
MARTIN LUTHER The main reason I got into comedy was in the hope that I could make a few people laugh and feel bett...
MIRANDA HART Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your pass...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18
1 JOHN 3:18 To transform the world, help people, lift others up, change lives.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Laughing doesn’t make bad things worse any more than crying makes them better.
RANSOM RIGGS There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better...
MARLA GIBBS The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that the...
JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintell...
JOHN BROADBENT A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear
...
JOHN MILTON At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That's the test.
LEE KUAN YEW With a ready tongue and rapier wit, Hamilton could wound people more than he realized, and he was so...
RON CHERNOW And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as the colour of bdellium.
BIBLE I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colo...
ARVO PART I think there's a lot of similarities, but John manages his temper a lot better.
ADAM PINE Why does it take two days for a polaroid of John Major to appear?
BARRY CRYER When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the ...
DAN TOTHEROH It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Milton . . . was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock, but could not carve heads upon cher...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Talk of the devil, and his horns appear
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Some things never change, they just get better or worse.
STEVEN MONACO A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling...
SYDNEY SMITH The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful, and so are you
JOHN LENNON What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN The American consumer is not chopped liver, ... We ought to know about these things.
MAX CLELAND His indication to us was that we could find the reason for this attack in his apartment.
DEREK PARCH That's realistic. And if any of the other factors gets worse, the projection could get worse.
BYRON HODGIN The simplest way to better the world is one good deed at a time.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH John 6 is one of the most theologically complex chapters in the Gospel. There is deep reflection on ...
FRANCIS MARTIN For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle t...
SWAMI SIVANANDA And this President wakes up every morning, looks out across America and is proud to announce, 'I...
MITT ROMNEY The better day, the worse deed.
MATTHEW (MATHEW) HENRY .the worse experience, the better teacher..
KOVO Let the poor man mind his tongue.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO We have good reason to believe the Senate will (pass the bill). This is a bipartisan bill.
DEBRA MARCUS For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world la...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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JOHN MILTON No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
JOHN MILTON Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kil...
JOHN MILTON Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
JOHN MILTON A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
JOHN MILTON He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid...
JOHN MILTON The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and comm...
JOHN MILTON For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
JOHN MILTON How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down...
JOHN MILTON Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libe...
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...
JOHN MILTON The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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.
JOHN MILTON Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flo...
JOHN MILTON Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills r...
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.
JOHN MILTON How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bl...
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.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
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?
JOHN MILTON Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moment...
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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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.
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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 ...
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