John Milton Quotes, Excellence Quotes

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

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The timely dew of sleep.

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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

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Where all life dies death lives.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.

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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

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The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

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