John Milton Quotes, Light Quotes, Order Quotes

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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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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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

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

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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

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

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I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

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My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

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Calm of mind, all passion spent.

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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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