John Milton Quotes
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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
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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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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
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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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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
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It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,And Laughter, holding both his sides.Come, and trip it, as you go.On the light fantastic toe.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.