Beauty Quote by John Milton

“Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.”

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the…

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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost…

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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that…

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they…

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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs…

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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

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To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When…

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“do not misunderstand person by beauty You really do not know its real or Mask on dirty thoughts”

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Call her beautiful a million times and she won't believe you. Call her ugly once, and she will never forget it.

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