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Lying Quotes by John Milton
- To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
- Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
- Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
- It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
- Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies,…
- The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,…
- 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…
- The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
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