Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
John Milton
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She was not made from his head to top him;
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passed his life in seclusion. UNKNOWN Surely, sir,
There's in him stuff that puts him to these ends;
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Do it in hope of fair advantages.
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Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. JOHN DRYDEN Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom
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Not from his head to be above him,
nor from his feet to be t... UNKNOWN The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the
joy of companion... RALPH WALDO EMERSON The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companion... RALPH WALDO EMERSON Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi... GARY RUDZ Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,
Heaven did a recompense as largely send;
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The bees are stirring--birds are on the wing--
... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and... WILLIAM BLAKE He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his he... GILBERT PARKER The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but wh... WILLIAM LAW Joseph ... W.E.B. DU BOIS Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor ai... JOHN MILTON Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. WILLIAM CONGREVE Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. WILLIAM CONGREVE His foot was really bothering him tonight. He probably shouldn't have played at all. Had John Little... GREG MCDERMOTT Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not suppose... J.M. REDMANN By a man's reaction to Jesus Christ, that man stands revealed. By his reaction to Jesus Christ his h... WILLIAM BARCLAY All cannot rule, nor can all be ruled. All cannot plow, nor can all sow, nor reap. No more can all n... JOSEPH P. BRADLEY And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voic... BIBLE And with Him are the keys of the unseen treasures-- none knows them but He; and He knows what is in ... QURAN Captain Kirk never burped out his lines, nor did he simply SPEAK! as IF! Every! Other! SYLlable! WAS... WILLIAM SHATNER Anyone who has learned the Quran and holds it lovingly in his heart will 'value his nights when peop... IBN MAS'UD God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme ... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But not you, O girl, nor yet his mother, stretched his eyebrows so fierce with expe... RAINER MARIA RILKE The boy wanted to be here [in Miami], but he's obliged to live in an absurd system, ... Fidel doesn'... ELIAN GONZALEZ If I can do it
By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. WILLIAM CONGREVE Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. WILLIAM CONGREVE Heaven Hath no rage like a love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned WILLIAM CONGREVE John Brown was clearly flawed in real life. He did some terrible things, but he did some things none... JAMES MCBRIDE There is no harm in the blind, nor is there any harm in the lame, nor is there any harm in the sick ... QURAN He could have been invisible and it wouldn’t have made a difference to them. He didn’t care, so ... JASON MEDINA Feast of Thomas the Apostle Long did I toil and knew no earthly rest, Far did I rove and found no c... J. QUARLES It's disappointing that Mr. Sizemore has to use my name to sell his DVDs. He is not an acquaintance ... PARIS HILTON He kept no Christmas-house for once a yeere,
Each day his boards were fild with Lordly fare;
H... ROBERT GREENE Woman was taken out of man; not out of his head to top him, nor out of his feet to be trampled under... WOODROW WYATT
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And airy tongues that syllable men's names. JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee;
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Thy sum... JOHN MILTON Nor jealousy
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Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames
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