John Milton Quotes, Lying Quotes, Father Quotes

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones Forget not.

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Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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

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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

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

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The rising world of waters dark and deep.

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Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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