John Milton Quotes, Hope Quotes, Fire Quotes

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

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What hath night to do with sleep?

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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

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Evil on itself shall back recoil.

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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 dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

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...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

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And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.

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And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

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Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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