John Milton Quotes, Memories Quotes, Despair Quotes

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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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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Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

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It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

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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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To live a life half dead, a living death.

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

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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