John Milton Quotes, Life Quotes, Book Quotes

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

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

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The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

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Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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Temper justice with mercy.

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In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

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Execute their airy purposes.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

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No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

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