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Oft Quotes by John Milton
- Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in…
- 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…
- And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
- So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each…
- And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
- Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
- Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
- Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
- Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
- How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before…
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- Twice or thrice had I loved thee before I knew thy face or name, so in a voice, so in a shapeless… — John Donne
- Jesters do oft prove prophets. — William Shakespeare
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