John Milton Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Dark Quotes

Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

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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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So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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