John Milton Quotes
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And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?
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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
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Danger will wink on opportunity.
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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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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!
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He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.
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And the jocund rebecks soundTo many a youth, and many a maid,Dancing in the checkered shade.And young and old come forth to playOn a sunshine holiday.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
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Death ready stands to interpose his dart.
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Oft, on a plat of rising ground,I hear the far-off curfew soundOver some wide-watered shore,Swinging low with sullen roar.
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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.
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Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
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My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.
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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
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Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
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Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
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Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.
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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.