John Milton Quotes, Darkness Quotes, Weakness Quotes

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

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This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.

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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

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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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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

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And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

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Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

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For so I created them free and free they must remain.

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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

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Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

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It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

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