John Milton Quotes, Envy Quotes, Sin Quotes

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

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Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.

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Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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

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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

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Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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