John Milton Quotes
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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Ornate rhetoric thought out of the rule of Plato... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
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Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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It was that fatal and perfidious bark,Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark,That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
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Mirth, admit me of thy crew,To live with her, and live with thee,In unreprovèd pleasures free.
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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.