John Milton Quotes
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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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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.
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His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.
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Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell,And devilish machinations come to nought.
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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
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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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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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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom,Far from all resort of mirth,Save the cricket on the hearth.
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If all the world Should in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
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And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.
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Our country is where ever we are well off.
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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.
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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.