John Milton on appointment
John Milton74 quotes“Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.”
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
John MiltonJohn Milton Gratitude bestows reverence…..changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John MiltonJohn Milton Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
John MiltonJohn Milton God made thee perfect, not immutable.
John MiltonJohn Milton There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
John MiltonJohn Milton You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It’s all in the mind.
John MiltonJohn Milton For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
John MiltonJohn Milton Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
John MiltonJohn Milton Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
John MiltonJohn Milton Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
John MiltonJohn Milton And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
John MiltonJohn Milton Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other’s burden.
John MiltonJohn Milton Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
John MiltonJohn Milton Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
John MiltonJohn Milton And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
John MiltonJohn Milton There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
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My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon’s appointments.
Steven WrightSteven Wright Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.
OvidOvid I am invariably late for appointments – sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.
Marilyn MonroeMarilyn Monroe Just made an appointment with the eye doctor because I don’t know what I saw in you.
Sophie SmithSophie Smith Only God who appointed me will remove me.
Robert MugabeRobert Mugabe In our darkest moments, when we sin or are disoriented, we always have an appointment with God.
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