John Milton Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Doe Quotes

He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

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To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.

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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

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But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

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Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

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Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

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Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

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Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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