John Milton Quotes, Memories Quotes, Men Quotes

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.

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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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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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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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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

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He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

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