John Milton Quotes, Excellence Quotes

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

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Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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Our reason is our law.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

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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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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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