John Milton Quotes, Education Quotes, War Quotes

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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

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In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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Death to life is crown or shame.

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