John Milton Quotes, War Quotes, Fighting Quotes

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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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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Wickedness is weakness.

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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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Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

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Hide me from day's garish eye.

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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

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Evil, be thou my good.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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