John Milton Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Joy Quotes

Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

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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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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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

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God made thee perfect, not immutable.

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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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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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