John Milton Quotes, Life Quotes, Nature Quotes

By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

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I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

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Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

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Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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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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Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

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Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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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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There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

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Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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