John Milton Quotes, Melancholy Quotes

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

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Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

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Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

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Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

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