John Milton Quotes
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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
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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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Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal BenchOf British Themis, with no mean applausePronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,Which others at their Bar so often wrench
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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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No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.
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The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.
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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
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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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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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All hell broke loose.
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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.
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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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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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Hence, loathèd Melancholy,Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born,In Stygian cave forlorn,'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.