Tears such as angels weep.
John Milton
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But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,--
Plays such fantastic tricks before hi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Man, proud man, dressed in a little brief authority, like an angry ape, play such fantastic tricks b...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON Words that weep, and tears that speak.
ABRAHAM COWLEY But, said as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.
THOMAS CAMPBELL Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy e...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, but man, proud man! Drest in a little brief authority; Most ingorant of what he's most assur'd, H...
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 All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD, ST. The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
BERNARD ST. The dew,
'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY I do not weep: I loathe tears, for they are a sign of slavery.
MAX BECKMANN The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.
DR. FRANCIS J. BRACELAND Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.
THOMAS S. MONSON The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.
ST. BERNARD I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN April, April,
Laugh thy girlish laughter,
Then, the moment after,
Weep thy girlish tears...
SIR WILLIAM WATSON (2) ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he 's most assured, His...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.'
ANGUS WILSON The one who loves you will make you weep.
ARGENTINE PROVERB What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils ...
WILLIAM BLAKE The men normally don’t weep easily but when the heart of a man cries, it even dries the tears in h...
ANUJ SOMANY If you want to make God count something, make a woman weep and He will count her tears.
VIKRANT PARSAI When Rapunzel saw the prince, she fell over him and began to weep, and her tears dropped into his ey...
MARISSA MEYER 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 I want to make sure Kiara’s got a boyfriend who has more to offer than a hot bod and a face that c...
SIMONE ELKELES My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband...
KARL PHILIPP MORITZ When you weep silently in the dark with nobody to shoulder your tears, you only find comfort in slee...
MARCO OSCAR OZ I am tired of tears and laughter,/ And men that laugh and weep;/ Of what may come hereafter/ For men...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels and God, and at liberty when of Devils an...
WILLIAM BLAKE 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 tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing sad...
SAMUEL BECKETT They celebrated the sins, while the kindness continued to weep in the corner. The swords of the demo...
AKSHAY VASU Tears terrify people more than anger because they attach to your heart and leave angels of mercy to ...
SHANNON L. ALDER You can see the Angels in teardrops. They are there to wipe away our tears when no one is to be foun...
KATIE DEGAND Onions can make ev'n Heirs and Widows weep
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dea...
GEORGE HARRISON The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else anoth...
SAMUEL BECKETT The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else anoth...
SAMUEL BECKETT Merciful heaven,
Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt
Splits the unwedgeable and gna...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Or did the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as, warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Plu...
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LEMONY SNICKET But now at last the sacred influence
Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n
Shoots ...
JOHN MILTON They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.
JOHN MILTON John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.
MOLLY RINGWALD It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY It is such a secret place, the land of tears.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY John Malkovich is such an interesting person and such a fun actor to work with.
LIAM HEMSWORTH You didn't think of angels as white or black. They were angels.
CLARENCE THOMAS There is no such thing as bad food when you are really hungry.
VIKRANT PARSAI It's wonderful. The speakers, such as keynote speaker (U.S. Sen.) Lamar Alexander, will speak, sign ...
PAT ALLEN If I could only weep,I think sweet help with my salt tears would come,To ease the cruel pain that is...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Wings of angels, tears of saints
won't bring you back to me
(about her son's suicide)
(He will come ...
JUDY COLLINS Let us weep in our darkness, but weep not for him!Not for him who, departing, leaves millions in tea...
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
SAINT AUGUSTINE Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she
Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die.
The sun in...
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY But first whom shall we send
In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? W...
JOHN MILTON They replied that they were called Angles. But he said, 'It is good; for they have the countenance o...
GREGORY I We weep as we witness the dead of a loved one.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It was such a great moment. I remember John was in shock.
THERESE BOYLE NIEGO In such moments of precious, invaluable misery, she rejoiced in tears of agony...
JANE AUSTEN It felt as if angels were pushing.
ADOLF GALLAND We just need everybody to step it up now that Milton is out.
JERRY NARRON Things haven't panned out for him at Milton Keynes Dons and he now has the chance to put himself on ...
COLIN TODD Some mute, inglorious Milton here may rest.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE And weep the more, because I weep in vain.
THOMAS GRAY Associate with people in such a manner, that they weep for you when you die and long for you if you ...
IMAM ALI Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.
DAVID RICHO I am dirty, Milena, endlessly dirty, that is why I make such a fuss about cleanliness. None sing as ...
FRANZ KAFKA His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo o...
ANAïS NIN Rejoice with them that rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
BIBLE Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portf...
STEVEN HOLL Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a dese...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of ...
KURT VONNEGUT The past and the future are tools of the ego that render us finite. Without our judgments about the ...
HUMAN ANGELS Yesterday I was, tomorrow I will be, but only Here and Now I Am.
HUMAN ANGELS The good want power, but to weep barren tears. The powerful goodness want: worse need for them. The ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.
BIBLE Do not weep for me.
THOMAS STARR KING Willow Weep for Me.
DUKE ELLINGTON It amuses me to weep for a dead man with eyes that once were his.
JAMES BRANCH CABELL What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,
That he should weep for her?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tears are good for you," Raphael said. When she opened her eyes back up, he knelt down. His large fr...
QUINN LOFTIS Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS Milton calls the university A stony-hearted step-mother.
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL [Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."
AUGUSTINE BIRRELL Throughout the ages, they are known as wise, who weep, remembering the True One.
GURU GOBIND SINGH There could not be a better person for such an important position than John Roberts,
JAY SEKULOW If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, -- Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such li...
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. . . .
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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 How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON