John Milton Quotes

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

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Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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

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The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

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

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Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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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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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

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Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

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Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

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Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

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O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

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