John Milton Quotes

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

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United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

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

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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

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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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Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

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

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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

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Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

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Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

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Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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