Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
John Milton
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JOHN MILTON Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told mysel...
ANNE RICE 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 To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the worl...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To come in their place and get a victory, hey, man, revenge is sweet. All scores are settled.
AARON ROUSE ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN Milton took vaudeville, which, if you look up 'vaudeville' in the dictionary, right alongsid...
ALAN KING The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume - that is, the cross is not a defeat, ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS We can't yet claim a victory but I'm certainly not conceding defeat.
DON BRASH The Way of Heaven does not compete, and yet it skillfully achieves victory.
LAO TZU You do not know me for sure, yet you feel yourself better than me.
But if you ever deliberately...
TOBA BETA Sometimes the prize is not worth the costs. The means by which we achieve victory are as important a...
BRANDON SANDERSON It was a bittersweet victory defensively. We gave up 48 points, which is unacceptable. We have to pu...
TIM MCGARIGLE Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.
JOSHUA CALEB 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 To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despe...
ERICH FROMM To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
EMILY DICKINSON To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become despera...
ERICH FROMM He's getting better, but he's not there yet.
BOBBY COX This fight's not over yet.
DICK DEGUERIN There is not much to say yet,
LINCOLN CHAFEE It is defeat which makes victory meaningful
HAMID BAGHA Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet,...
ROSA PARKS In 1960, John F. Kennedy rode a superior televised debate performance to victory over Richard Nixon.
FABRIZIO MOREIRA Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Revenge is sweet and not fattening
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if f...
SUN TZU Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON 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 In the art of war, if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the approaching battle...
EMILY THORNE No revenge is so heroic than that which torments envy by doing good.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Revenge is possible only if you spare the enemy.
RAHEEL FAROOQ The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.
SUN TZU Rectitude is a perpetual victory, celebrated not by cries of joy but by serenity, which is joy fixed...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Victory is not possible, if one doesn't learn from the past and mistakes made.
AULIQ ICE It still has not sunk in yet.
DENNIS TOMASEVICZ Not yet. He's like glue.
WILLIE WILLIAMS I'm 39 but I'm not over the hill yet.
GAIL DEVERS They're not sure of anything yet.
ROBBIE BURROUGHS Not yet. We do see some, but we haven't lately.
JOE WILLIAMS It's not victory if it doesn't end the war.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
THOMAS CARLYLE War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
ALBERT PIKE If fighting is sure to result in victory, than you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if f...
SUN TZU But if this is the victory rally it is going to be short-lived unless we get that perfect war that f...
ANAIS FARAJ Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS You speak good words, child, but sometimes what lies within is much darker. The line between justice...
AMIRA ALY 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 hope is not victory
J.R.R. TOLKIEN If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no cro...
THOMAS CARLYLE There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, ca...
PEARL BUCK This is our victory. If we had not helped each other [in the protests], today would not have happene...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG Success is a journey, not a destination, which explains why I'm not there yet
JEFF BELL Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a ...
SUSAN STEWART Failure is not fatal; victory is not success.
TONY RICHARDSON Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If y...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake, the faith and morals hold Which ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.
MARCUS AURELIUS Success is the best revenge and Murder is the worst revenge.
MARK BROUGHTON If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, althoug...
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven an...
SUN TZU If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? A...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you only think outside the box,you will always wonder what's inside. Keep your options open. Lore...
LORENZO VICTORY John Ashcroft is not a patriot, John Ashcroft is a descendant of Joseph McCarthy.
HOWARD DEAN Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly
regret what is already past.
CHINESE PROVERB Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past
CHINESE PROVERBS Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
ZIG ZIGLAR It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
ANONYMOUS Happiness is not pleasure, it's victory.
ZIG ZIGLAR Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood
HENRY MILLER If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, alt...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI It's like it's not real. It really hasn't sunk in yet. It comes and goes.
JOSEE MARTEL It is still color, it is not yet light.
PIERRE BONNARD There'll be a lot of turmoil; and we're not finished yet.
TOM BURNETT They were not ready for me. They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.
ROY HORN I just feel like I'm not quite done yet.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA You're not through yet. You've got a project to finish.
DICK MARTIN I cry for those not yet dead.
FRANK HERBERT I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT I've not discussed it with Milan yet. I don't know where it's at yet. But if someone's going to come...
HARRY REDKNAPP "So so" is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it is not; it is but so so
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE They were not ready for me to do the show upstairs. Not yet.
ROY HORN We are going to have to deal with it, we're not there yet. But we do have that restriction and will ...
PAUL BIRD The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.
FATHER THOMAS We have not started yet, and I am convinced we are on the up. I cannot tell you now that we could af...
ARSENE WENGER Do not rejoice over what has not yet happened
EGYPTIAN PROVERB Vijay (Singh) has set the standard for the 40-somethings and I'm not even there yet.
ERNIE ELS It's not something we've reviewed in detail yet.
JOEL SAWYER If you believe in victory, then victory will believe in you.
PAULO COELHO
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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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And to the stack or the bar...
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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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E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
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Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
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To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
...
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And, like a ...
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Without all hope of ...
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Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, o...
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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
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Among the faithless faithful only he.
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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.
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More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's ...
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That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
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Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a...
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Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o...
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Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
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With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
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This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
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Is flat despair.
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Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
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Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, ro...
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Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
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Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
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Yet gives not o...
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Of miser's treasures.
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Within thy airy shell,
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Harpies and Hydras.
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Can either sex assume, or both.
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air of delightful studies.
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. . . .
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Car'd not to be at all.
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JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
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The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
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What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
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Of creatures ...
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Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
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Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
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Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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No light, but rather darkness visible.
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Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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