John Milton Quotes, Peace Quotes, Writing Quotes

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

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Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

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Tears such as angels weep.

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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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God is thy law, thou mine.

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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

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

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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