John Milton Quotes, Faith Quotes, Angel Quotes

O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

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

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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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

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On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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