John Milton Quotes
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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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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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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
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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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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
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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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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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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.
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Solitude is sometimes best society.
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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.