John Milton Quotes, Heaven Quotes, Towers Quotes

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

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Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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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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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

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Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

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A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

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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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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.

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This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!

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Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

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The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

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Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

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Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

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