John Milton Quotes, Mind Quotes

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

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But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.

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So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

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Solitude is sometimes best society.

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Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate

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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

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Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

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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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Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks do stray, Mountains on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide.

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