John Milton Quotes
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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,And with forced fingers rudeShatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
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Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
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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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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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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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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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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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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
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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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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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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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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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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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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.