John Milton Quotes, Kings Quotes, People Quotes

The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

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We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench

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The sacred influence of light appears.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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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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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

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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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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

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