John Milton Quotes, Religious Quotes, Eye Quotes

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.

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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

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(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

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Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

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Time is the subtle thief of youth.

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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

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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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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

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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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The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

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He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

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The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

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