John Milton Quotes, Morning Quotes, Ambition Quotes

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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Execute their airy purposes.

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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

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Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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God shall be all in all.

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Such joy ambition finds.

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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?

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Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.

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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

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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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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

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These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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