John Milton Quotes

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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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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

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Hereafter, when they come to model Heav'n And calculate the Stars, how they will wield The mightier frame, how build, unbind, contrive To save appearances, how gird the Shear With Centric and Eccentric scribbled ore, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

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What can 'scape the eye
Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart.
Omniscient!

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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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The helmed Cherubim,
And sworded Seraphim,
Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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As when the potent Rod Of Amrams Son in Egypt's evil day Wav'd round the Coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern Wind, That ore the Realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like Night, and darkened all the Land of Nile

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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.. for beauty stands
In the admiration only of weak minds
Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes
Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy,
At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

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