John Milton Quotes, Brother Quotes, Arrows Quotes

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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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

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This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

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Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.

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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

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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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