John Milton - Love Quotes

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

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Love Virtue, she alone is free,
She can teach ye how to climb
Higher than the sphery chime;
Or, if Virtue feeble were,
Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

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Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

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

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But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

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So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

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License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;
Not wedlock-treachery.

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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.

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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

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Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home — They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

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Freely we serve,
Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

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Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring.

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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well; how long or short permit to Heaven.

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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

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Unmoved,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His Loyalty he kept, his Love, his Zeal;
Nor number, nor example with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind.

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Nor turned I ween
Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites
Mysterious of connubial love refused.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
With Joy and Love triumphing.

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
But what it is, hard is to say,
Harder to hit.

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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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But, O sad Virgin, that thy power
Might raise Musaeus from his bower,
Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing
Such notes as warbled to the string,
Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek,
And made Hell grant what Love did seek.

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