John Milton Quotes, Light Quotes, Umpires Quotes

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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Our reason is our law.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

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Ride the air In whirlwind.

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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

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

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

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