John Milton Quotes, Evil Quotes, Promise Quotes

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

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Every cloud has a silver lining.

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

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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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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.

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

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