John Milton Quotes, Grace Quotes, Despair Quotes

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

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To live a life half dead, a living death.

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.

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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

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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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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

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And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

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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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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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