John Milton Quotes, Dream Quotes, Truth Quotes

By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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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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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

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Wickedness is weakness.

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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

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

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

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Ride the air In whirlwind.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

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Where all life dies death lives.

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For God will deign to visit oft the dwellings of just men -- delighted, and with frequent intercourse -- thither will send his winged messengers on errants of supernal grace.

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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

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And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

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Danger will wink on opportunity.

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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

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And feel that I am happier than I know.

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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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