John Milton Quotes, Kings Quotes, Tyrants Quotes

It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

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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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Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

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Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

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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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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

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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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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

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