John Milton Quotes, Time Quotes, Years Quotes

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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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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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

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Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

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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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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

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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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It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

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

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