John Milton Quotes, Stars Quotes, Laughter Quotes

From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

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Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

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On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!

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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

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What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

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The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

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Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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