John Milton Quotes About Silence
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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
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Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.
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