John Milton Quotes, Life Quotes, Book Quotes

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

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Courage never to submit of yield.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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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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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

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Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.

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Reason also is choice.

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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

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No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

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Death to life is crown or shame.

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My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

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