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Me Quotes by John Milton
- The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
- How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There…
- No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime…
- 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…
- Hide me from day's garish eye.
- But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
- And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse
- From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.
- If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine,…
- I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.
- Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.
- Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- 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,…
- Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
- So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
- What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
- Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link…
- Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?
- What is dark within me, illumine.
- Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
- When I consider how my light is spent / Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet imbroider'd vale Where the love-lorn…
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- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
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