John Milton Quotes, Son Quotes, Men Quotes

O execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.

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Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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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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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

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(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

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Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!

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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

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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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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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