John Milton Quotes, Deserving It Quotes, Missing Quotes

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some have it, not deserving it; others, though deserving it, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

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

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Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.

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O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.

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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

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Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: 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: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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Execute their airy purposes.

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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

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

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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

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