John Milton Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Heaven Quotes

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

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Courage never to submit of yield.

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God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

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The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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Danger will wink on opportunity.

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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

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Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

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In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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