John Milton Quotes, Steps Quotes

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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

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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

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Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.

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Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

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