Quotations from poetry of different ages- Part-01

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Eternal Passion!

Eternal Pain!

Philomela (1853)1.31

Truth sits upon the lips of dying man.

Sohrab and Rustam(1853)1.656

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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Proverbs of Hell.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

To Mercy Pity Peace and Loves.

All pray in their distress.

Songs of Innocence(1789) The Divine Image

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So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts the teller

Fifine at the fair (1872) st. 32

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

The Inn Album (1875) canto 5

Oppression makes the wise man mad

Luria(1846) act 4, 1.16

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Sweet is revenge – especially to women.

Don Juan(1819240 canto 1, st 124

Pleasure’s a sin, and sometimes sin’s pleasure.

Don Juan(1819240 canto 1, st 133

Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, tis woman’s whole existence.

Don Juan(1819240 canto 1, st 194

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Alone, alone, all, all alone,

Alone on a wise wide sea!

And never a saint took pity on

My soul in agony.

The Rime of the Ancient (1798) pt. 4

O Lady! We receive but what we give,

And in out life alone does Nature live.

Dejection: and Ode(1802) st. 4

Water, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(1798) pt. 2

He prayeth well, Who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast.

He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner(1798) pt. 2

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For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.

Songs and Sonnets(The Canonization)

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,

Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

Songs and Sonnets(The Sunne Rising)

This bed thy centre is, these walls thy sphere

Songs and Sonnets(The Sunne Rising)

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The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923)

Good Fences make good neighbors

Mending Wall(1914)

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‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty, ‘that is all

 Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Ode on Grecian Urn(1820) st. 5

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains

My Sense, as thought of hemlock I had drunk,

Ode on Grecian Urn(1820) st. 1

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard

Are sweeter;

Ode on Grecian Urn(1820) st. 2

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:

Its loveliness increases; it will never

Pass into nothingness; but still will keep

A bower quiet for us, and a sleep-----

Endymion

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Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

Paradise Lost (1667) bk.1, 1. 261

…….The Childhood shows the man,

 As morning shows the day.

Paradise Regained (1671) bk.4, 1.220

Just are the ways of God,

And justifiable to men;

Unless there be who think not God at all.

Samson Agonistes (1644) p. 4

A good book is the perilous life-blood of the master spirit,

Embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Areopagitica(1644) p.4

Books are not absolutely dead thing, but do contain a

Potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

Areopagitica(1644) p.4

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

Areopagitica(1644) p.4

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties

Areopagitica(1644) p.4