John Milton Quotes

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

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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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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

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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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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

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O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

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

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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