John Milton Quotes, Faith Quotes, Faithful Quotes

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

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

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Wickedness is weakness.

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Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

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Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

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