John Milton Quotes
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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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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
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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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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
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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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And storied windows richly dight,Casting a dim religious light.There let the pealing organ blow,To the full-voiced choir below,In service high, and anthems clearAs may, with sweetness, through mine earDissolve me into ecstasies,And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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Our reason is our law.
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Dark with excessive bright.
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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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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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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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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!