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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still. (John Milton)
This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That He our deadly forfeit should release, And with His Father work us a perpetual peace. View quote
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Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove afield; and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night. View quote
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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost. View quote
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n. View quote
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. View quote
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. View quote
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. View quote
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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear. View quote
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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. View quote
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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. (John Milton)
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. View quote
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For so I created them free and free they must remain. View quote
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What is dark within me, illumine. View quote
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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. View quote
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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? View quote
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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. View quote
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents. View quote
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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss. View quote
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. View quote
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The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. (John Milton)
What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22. View quote
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Without the meed of some melodious tear. View quote
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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss. View quote
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What hath night to do with sleep? View quote
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