John Milton Quotes
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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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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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Dark with excessive bright.
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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the 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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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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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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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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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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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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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.
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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.