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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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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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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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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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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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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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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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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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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Our reason is our law.
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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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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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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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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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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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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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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 other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.