John Milton Quotes, Summer Quotes, Sweet Quotes

Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

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No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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