John Milton Quotes, Christian Quotes, Tears Quotes

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.

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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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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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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

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Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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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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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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