John Milton Quotes, Loneliness Quotes, Eye Quotes

It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

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Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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Luck is the residue of design.

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We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

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Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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