John Milton Quotes, Strength Quotes, Truth Quotes

Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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

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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

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The rising world of waters dark and deep.

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In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

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Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

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