John Milton Quotes, Solitude Quotes

Solitude is sometimes best society.

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

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Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

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The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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