John Milton Quotes, Life Quotes, Book Quotes

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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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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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

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And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

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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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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

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Evil, be thou my good.

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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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What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

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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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