John Milton Quotes, Tongue Quotes, Reason Quotes

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

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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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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

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

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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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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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