John Milton Quotes, Strong Quotes, Fall Quotes

O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.

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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.

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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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Luck is the residue of design.

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

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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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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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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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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

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Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

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