John Milton Quotes
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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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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
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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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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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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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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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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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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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It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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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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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
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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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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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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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Dark with excessive bright.
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Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?
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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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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.