They also serve who only stand and wait.
Paradise Lost
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Paradise Lost
Sonnet XIX: When I consider how my light is spent
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"His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command."
Humorous"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."
Humorous"For what is worth in anything, But so much money as 'twill bring?"
Strange & Unusual"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe."
Humorous"For what is life, but the quintessence of pleasure, if we be not in a perpetual motion of enjoyment?"
Humorous