John Milton Quotes, Intention Quotes, Ends Quotes

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.

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None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

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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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Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

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He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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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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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

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Reason also is choice.

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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

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