John Milton Quotes, Nature Quotes, Spring Quotes

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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But infinite in pardon is my Judge.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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Death to life is crown or shame.

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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The sacred influence of light appears.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

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