John Milton Quotes

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

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It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

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Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

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Heaven
Is as the Book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read His wondrous works.

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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

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All maladies Of ghastly Spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heart-sick Agonie, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, Epilepsies, fierce Catarrhs, Intestine Stone and Ulcer, Colic pangs, Dropsies and Asthmas, and Joint-racking Rheums.

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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

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[Infinity is],..a dark Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place, are lost.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

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If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.

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Fate shall yield
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

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Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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