John Milton Quotes

Evil, be thou my good.

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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

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God made thee perfect, not immutable.

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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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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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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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