John Milton Quotes, Hands Quotes, Eden Quotes

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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Our reason is our law.

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

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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

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

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Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

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Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shall possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

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