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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
John Milton
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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
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Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse...
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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
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And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
John Milton
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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
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Inflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.
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Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
John Milton
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with theeJest, and youthful jollity,Quips and cranks and wanton wiles,Nods and becks and wreathèd smiles.
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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
John Milton
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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
John Milton