John Milton Quotes, Faithful Quotes

And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

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Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.

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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

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Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

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

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

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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.

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Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

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Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

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Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

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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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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.

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