John Milton Quotes, Unwise Quotes

This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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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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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.

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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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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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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

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Reason also is choice.

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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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

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Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

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Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

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