John Milton Quotes, Envy Quotes, Sin Quotes

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

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Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

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Reason also is choice.

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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

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His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

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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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Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

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Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

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