It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
John Milton
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JAMES DURBIN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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"I...
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ARTHUR MILLER When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL To be this happy is to be miserable, to feel this satisfaction is to burn.
ANNE RICE How wild it was, to let it be.
T. S. ELIOT Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
ANONYMOUS Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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GERMANY KENT It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed at home.
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IRVING STONE Nothing is miserable unless you think it is so
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In a light fantastic round.
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As I pace the deck alone,
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That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
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Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
JOHN MILTON In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.
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Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
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JOHN MILTON . . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
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For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
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O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread.
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Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
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(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o...
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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.
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Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over thi...
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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.
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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.
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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
...
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Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of ...
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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...
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Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunge...
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Among the faithless faithful only he.
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That opes the palace of eternity.
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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.
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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.
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Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a...
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Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;
Thou wi...
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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.
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With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
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JOHN MILTON And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
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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...
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Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
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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.
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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...
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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.
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. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
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My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine...
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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?
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The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
JOHN MILTON If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
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Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures ...
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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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Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
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Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum...
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Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
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Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
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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