If this fail, / The pillared firmament is rottenness, / And earth's base built on stubble.
John Milton
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If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
JOHN MILTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the o...
AHMAD JAMAL Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON Mugabe has built his power base on the politics of patronage ... and all those things are part of th...
ELDRED MASUNUNGURE 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 This is a sculpture, hand-built base, with a face on it. I wanted to add cool colors for the shaded ...
JOHN THOMAS That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON My music and my fan base is really built off of my lifestyle.
WIZ KHALIFA ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN Dare to fail. If you never fail, you’re never taken risks and that’s no way to take on this life...
RICHIE SAMBORA Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between Londo...
NEIL GAIMAN Proof, she knew, was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information ...
DAN BROWN My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ There was an outhouse. Cliff Roberts built a john, which is still there.
ARNOLD PALMER Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
JORGE LUIS BORGES Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone
JORGE LUIS BORGES And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.
THOMAS HOOD All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon the sand.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I can't even
SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT I'm very optimistic about the football team. John does a great job getting them ready, ... The [Supe...
BRIAN FOLEY The porcelain doll residing in her white-pillared dollhouse was a mirage.
KATLYN CHARLESWORTH All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE WEBB So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.
BEATRICE POTTER WEBB Technology is going the wrong way. Instead of working on the next great ipod we need to focus on spa...
DEMOSTHENES LOCKE I will take all the action there is, and even if I fail and fail and fail and fail and fail, I know ...
JACINTA MPALYENKANA The recent price consolidation...has built a very solid base for a move higher.
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI 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 And I fail
DEYTH BANGER It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoo...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The eyes are on McGuire, Dix and Lakehurst. The future is bright for this base.
COL. FREDERICK MARTIN We think other worlds, perhaps other Earths, do exist,
JAMES GARVIN John Henry Lloyd is the man I gave the credit to for polishing my skills. He taught me how to play t...
JUDY JOHNSON Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongsid...
ALAN KING If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't...
MORRIS HITE that's all you'll see in the winter if this project is built.
DON YOUNG This is the base. The base are the Republican women.
ALEX CASTANO John is held in high regard by the Chinese government and if anyone can convince them to move more r...
WILLIAM RHODES The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, ...
MARK TWAIN The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, ...
MARK TWAIN This relationship is going to be built on trust.
MARLA MAPLES If you fail don't blame it on slavery; this is a new day, nobody is keeping you away from success! -...
OMEGALIFE If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.
KATE O'BRIEN And under the firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, whic...
BIBLE The thing about kissing men - how do people stand it? The stubble is maddening.
JOHN CHO We're appalled. This city is built on tourism, and we're their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON Were appalled. This city is built on tourism, and were their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON We’re appalled, ... This city is built on tourism, and we’re their last priority.
JILL JOHNSON Low prices is what (Wal-Mart) built the business and brand on, ... This is just another dimension.
JENNIFER WARREN People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a...
MATTHEW PEARL Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I...
JOHN MILTON Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN The human body is built to fail, no matter how you look after it, it will self create problems to en...
VISITHRA MANIKAM The way this team is built ? and, you know, we're not built on offence ? our system is always going ...
MARTIN BRODEUR Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility...
JAMES WILLIAMS Those fields of daisies we landed on, and dusty fields and desert stretches. Memories of many skies ...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don...
MORRIS HITE Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes...
SUMNER REDSTONE Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, li...
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE The spacious firmament on high, / And all the blue ethereal sky, / And spangled heavens, a shining f...
JOSEPH ADDISON Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH Most phenomenal startup teams create businesses that ultimately fail. Why? They built something that...
ERIC RIES A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones (Proverbs 14:30).
BIBLE The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills a...
BOB GAUDIO Fall makes me think that if I fail horribly at this art thing, and then fail horribly with this writ...
TYLER HOJBERG Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life...
C. JOYBELL C. We're still on base to accomplish this.
CHARLES CARRIER Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rot...
JONATHAN FRANZEN This is really a new NHL and it's built on speed and young guys.
MARIO LEMIEUX Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
MICHELE BACHMANN It's like standing on top of the John Hancock. This is the best we've been.
JERRY ANGELO Ultimately, of course, it is the market that will determine if, when, and what gets built on the sit...
LOU TOMSON This town was built on nepotism.
DAMON WAYANS Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a ro...
THOMAS JEFFERSON God made them as stubble to our swords.
OLIVER CROMWELL They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
BIBLE They say a program is built on signature wins, and this could be a signature win for this program.
BRANDON JOHNSON My whole thing is getting on base. My on-base percentage is the No. 1 thing. That equates to runs, ....
DAVE ROBERTS We like to play an up-tempo, aggressive style. That's how we're built. We're not built on clutching ...
GLEN WESLEY We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal pro...
CHARLES SPURGEON Is there some lesson on how to be friends?
I think what it means is that central to living
DAVID RAKOFF He was kind of like the big bang theory, except instead of nothing building up and creating the univ...
JACOB ATKINSON Our feature film, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Two,' has a built-in fan base from the ori...
TED SARANDOS While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Base eight is just like base ten really, if you're missing two fingers
TOM LEHRER The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
BIBLE I have seen many successful people fail after they start fearing they might lose what they have buil...
GUY LALIBERTE If anyone ever tells you that your
work is unprofessional,
remember: amateurs built the Ark
and prof...
ANONYMOUS You can go on making the dikes higher and higher . . . but if they fail, the effect is going to be m...
JOS KUIJPERS You're foursquare in a dilemma if you want to broaden the base and lower tax rates. If you broaden t...
SCOTT HODGE Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS
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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.
JOHN MILTON Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,...
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.
JOHN MILTON Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, blo...
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...
JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid...
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.
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