John Milton Quotes, Riches Quotes, Firsts Quotes

Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

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For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

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Where all life dies death lives.

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

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He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

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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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So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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