John Milton Quotes, Book Quotes

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

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We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

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Time is the subtle thief of youth.

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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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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

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For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.

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Where all life dies death lives.

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

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These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

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Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

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But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

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