John Milton - Time Quotes

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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains,
And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day,
And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

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A dark Illimitable ocean without bound, Without dimension, where length, breadth, and height And time and place are lost.

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

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It ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge.

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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

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Day and night,
Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

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With thee conversing I forget all time,
All seasons, and their change; all please alike.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
With charm of earliest birds.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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Under the opening eyelids of the morn,
We drove afield; and both together heard
What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn,
Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night.

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Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race:
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping Hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more than what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross.

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If you let slip time, like a neglected rose
It withers in the stalk with languished head.

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night,
In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen,
Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost
That breaks his magic chains at curfew time,
No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine,
Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

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A mind not to be chang'd by place or time.
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.

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I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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Oft-times nothing profits more
Than self esteem, grounded on just and right
Well managed.

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Time, though in Eternity, applied
To motion, measures all things durable
By present, past, and future.

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