John Milton Quotes, Nature Quotes, May Quotes

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

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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

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The never-ending flight Of future days.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.

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Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

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He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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