John Milton Quotes
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise...
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
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He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
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Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.
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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
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Every cloud has a silver lining.
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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.
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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.
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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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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
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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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Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
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And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.
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Faithful found among the faithless.
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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!
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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.