John Milton Quotes, Courage Quotes, Revenge Quotes

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

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In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

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Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

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Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

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Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

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