Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
John Milton
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON "Most musical, most melancholy" bird!
A melancholy bird! Oh! idle thought!
In nature there i...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.
ROBERT BURTON And the Sabbath bell,
That over wood and wild and mountain dell
Wanders so far, chasing all th...
SAMUEL ROGERS Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) . . . she indulged in melancholy - that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries . . .
CHARLES DICKENS If on the one side we do not harbor the illusion that the entire proletariat must be enlightened bef...
JOHANN MOST The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its expone...
JOHANN MOST If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in t...
JOHANN MOST Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
JOHANN MOST Anarchists are socialists because they want the improvement of society, and they are communists beca...
JOHANN MOST Is anarchism possible? The failure of attempts to attain freedom does not mean the cause is lost.
JOHANN MOST Is anarchism desirable? Well, who does not seek freedom? What man, unless willing to declare himself...
JOHANN MOST I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.&...
DONNY MOST It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - '...
JOHANN MOST It should be noted that these patients were all quite motivated to try this product. Facial plastic ...
SAM MOST As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and ...
JOHANN MOST The more man clings to religion, the more he believes. The more he believes, the less he knows. The ...
JOHANN MOST 'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to ...
JOHANN MOST It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'volu...
JOHANN MOST The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the relig...
JOHANN MOST He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a r...
JOHANN MOST The demand for facial plastic surgical procedures has increased steadily over the past decade. But a...
SAM MOST Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.
ARISTOTLE Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rare...
LORD BYRON They that govern the most make the least noise.
JOHN SELDEN It's the empty can that makes the most noise
PROVERB Aristotle said , , , melancholy men of all others are most witty.
ROBERT BURTON In the end, you will realize most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Sweet Bird of Youth.
CHRISTIAN SLATER Oh! The melancholy, the fantastic melancholy of that
invention that freezes sounds, just as Fr...
MAURICE RENARD The dews of the evening most carefully shun;
Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, FOURTH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Empty barrels make the most noise
SWEDISH PROVERB Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN An empty wagon makes the most noise.
SAYING OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
KLAUS SCHULZE And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.
EDGAR ALLAN POE A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.
HERMAN MELVILLE The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
CHICK COREA And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical com...
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Beware the Jabberwock, my son
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubju...
LEWIS CARROLL I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
TRENT REZNOR My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in retu...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to...
JONATHAN EDWARDS The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind t...
JONATHAN EDWARDS 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 Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of ma...
E. M. FORSTER Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most i...
BRAD HOLLAND Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is undoubtedly the most significant Lennon manuscript to be offered at auction, and arguably, the...
MARTIN GAMMON I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
TRENT REZNOR For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.
JIM CARREY I find it strange that people today find something musical in what I call noise.
JAF LIETHERS The bird
That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet
complainings.
WILLIAM C. SOMERVILLE Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
DAN PINK So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin o...
HELEN KELLER All but the most partisan of lawyers will agree that John Roberts is a superbly qualified nominee.
THEODORE OLSON For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly...
D. H. LAWRENCE For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly...
D.H. LAWRENCE [Milton Hope led the singing of] Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't...
BOB HOPE The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.
AMY GRANT To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is ...
ALCAEUS To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is ...
ALCAEUS I can tell you that Candace is one of the most sweet, loving girls I've ever met.
BERT WEISS You do have a high-frequency hearing loss, most likely due to that excessive noise exposure.
DAWN MANISKAS Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea,
Why takest thou its melancholy voice,
And with that...
RICHARD HENRY DANA [Like] most lads at the time, [John] was horrified by the idea of homosexuality.
CYNTHIA LENNON We will most probably get the bird flu carried by the millions of wild birds that are on their way t...
BEHROUZ YASEMI Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and there...
ROBERT BURTON ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her mel...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through thei...
JOHN COLTRANE Sweet bird, that sing'st away the early hours,
Of winter's past or coming void of care,
Well p...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND (1) Congressman John Murtha and Alberto Mora exemplify the kind of courage my father admired most.
CAROLINE KENNEDY I really think one of the most extraordinary things in the world is the amount of noise a child can ...
JOSEPH PULITZER I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd,
I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indiffe...
DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE This is most certainly not the bird flu. This is a common illness in birds.
JENNIFER PFLUGFELDER It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
PAUL BEGALA The devil invites mankind to rebellion and disorder. With his litany of subterfuges, he sows discord...
ROBERT SARAH The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of ...
SIR MATTHEW HALE The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of ...
MATTHEW HALE His amazing band contributes to one extraordinary experience of musical wit, depth and, most of all,...
LOU REED The nerve-system of many an Urning is the finest and the most complicated musical instrument in the ...
OTTO DE JOUX John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's r...
DEBRA NESS I miss you in the maddening noise of crowd,
I hear your laughter at my folly with sweet indiffe...
DEBATRAYEE BANERJEE Why is Melancholy like Honey? Because it is very sweet, and it is culled from Flowers.
HOPE MIRRLEES Without question, the Red Ryder BB gun is the most important gun in the history of American weaponry...
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To them by faith imputed they may find
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Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
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The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
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On the light fantastic toe.
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In a light fantastic round.
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L...
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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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The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
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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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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.
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(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?
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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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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...
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She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a ...
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JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
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...
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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?
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 ...
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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.
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JOHN MILTON In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON Human face divine.
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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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Had in her sober livery all things clad:
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Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON