36 quotes found
“What hath night to do with sleep?”
“Awake, arise or be for ever falln.”
“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”
“Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.”
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
“But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the bosom of dim NightA glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins her farthest verge, and Chaos to r...”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
“Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud...”
“Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.”
“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!”
“And of the sixth day yet remainedThere wanted yet the master work, the endOf all yet done: a creature who not prone And brute as other creatures but enduedWith sanctity of reason might erect His st...”
“Our state cannot be severed, we are one,One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”
“Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon for man's offenceTo heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,And flowers aloft, shading t...”
“Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelld by man...”
“Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast Is open? or will God incense his ire For such a petty trespass? and not praise Rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain Of death denounced, whatever...”
“Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.”
“Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,With purpose to explore or to disturbThe secrets of your realm, but by constraint Wand'Ring this darksome desert, as my wayLies through your spacious empire u...”
“A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?”
“In yonder nether world where shall I seekHis bright appearances or footstep trace?For though I fled him angry, yet recalledTo life prolonged and promised race I nowGladly behold though but His utmo...”
“Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?”
“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe”
