John Milton Quotes
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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.
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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.
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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell,And devilish machinations come to nought.
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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.
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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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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,If ever deed of honour did thee please,Guard them, and him within protect from harms.
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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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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.
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No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.