John Milton Quotes, Faithful Quotes, Suffering Quotes

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

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What hath night to do with sleep?

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Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

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But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

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

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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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That power Which erring men call Chance.

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God shall be all in all.

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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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

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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

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They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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