John Milton Quotes, Light Quotes, Sacred Quotes

The sacred influence of light appears.

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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

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And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the checkered shade. And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday.

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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

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And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

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Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

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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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This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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Solitude is sometimes the best society.

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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

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For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

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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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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

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My sentence is for open war.

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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

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