John Milton Quotes, Time Quotes, Forget Quotes

With thee conversing I forget all time.

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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

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Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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

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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

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Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

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O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?

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Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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