John Milton Quotes, Growth Quotes, Virtue Quotes

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

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

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

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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The never-ending flight Of future days.

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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Danger will wink on opportunity.

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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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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

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He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

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Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!

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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

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