John Milton Quotes About Joy
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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.
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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.
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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
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Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.
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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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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/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
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