John Milton Quotes, Darkness Quotes, Weakness Quotes

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

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Our reason is our law.

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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Dark with excessive bright.

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Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

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But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

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