John Milton Quotes, Truth Quotes, Encounters Quotes

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

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When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

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He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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My sentence is for open war.

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So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

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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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