John Milton Quotes, Virtue Quotes, Chimes Quotes

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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Luck is the residue of design.

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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

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Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

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Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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Reason also is choice.

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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

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

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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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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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