John Milton Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Doe Quotes

He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.

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On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

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From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.

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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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