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Day Quotes by John Milton
- The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind…
- Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
- Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.
- Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's…
- Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom…
- Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
- So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in…
- O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
- Hide me from day's garish eye.
- For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when…
- But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
- From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a…
- He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul…
- O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God…
- The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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