John Milton Quotes
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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.
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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?
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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
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My rising is thy fall
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Tears such as angels weep.
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The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
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Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race:Call on the lazy leaden-stepping Hours,Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,Which is no more than what is false and vain,And merely mortal dross.
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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
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Herbs, and other country messes,Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
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So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.