John Milton Quotes
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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
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Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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God shall be all in all.
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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.
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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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My sentence is for open war.