John Milton Quotes, Life Quotes, Winning Quotes

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.

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The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

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Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

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Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

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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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Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

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

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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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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Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

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Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

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