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John Milton Quotes

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With thee conversing I forget all time, all seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with charm of earliest birds  (John Milton Quotes) For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them ; they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them  (John Milton Quotes) My race of glory run, and race of shame, and I shall shortly be with them that rest  (John Milton Quotes) Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge  (John Milton Quotes) Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course  (John Milton Quotes) Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder  (John Milton Quotes) And in requital ope his leathern scrip, and show me simples of a thousand names, telling their strange and vigorous faculties  (John Milton Quotes) The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home  (John Milton Quotes) Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?  (John Milton Quotes) Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, thy wish, exactly to thy heart’s desire  (John Milton Quotes) The sun, declined, was hastening now with prone career to the ocean isles, and in the ascending scale of heaven the stars that usher evening rose  (John Milton Quotes) By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages  (John Milton Quotes) Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above  (John Milton Quotes) And so sepulchred in such pomp dost lie; that kings for such a tomb would wish to die  (John Milton Quotes) And sing to those that hold the vital shears; and turn the adamantine spindle round, on which the fate of gods and men is wound  (John Milton Quotes) God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious  (John Milton Quotes) It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, that woman’s love can win, or long inherit; but what it is, hard is to say, harder to hit  (John Milton Quotes) That grounded maxim, so rife and celebrated in the mouths of wisest men, that to the public good private respects must yield  (John Milton Quotes) Dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages; yet, mixed with pity, violated not their bliss  (John Milton Quotes) A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices of peace and war  (John Milton Quotes) Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear; farewell remorse; all good to me is lost; evil, be thou my good!  (John Milton Quotes) Kindles the gummy bark of fir or pine, and sends a comfortable heat from far, which might supply the sun  (John Milton Quotes) These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear  (John Milton Quotes) I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, and virtue has no tongue to check her pride  (John Milton Quotes) All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, all intellect, all sense, and as they please they limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size, assume, as likes them best, condense or rare  (John Milton Quotes) In his east the glorious lamp was seen, regent of the day; and all the horizon round, invested with bright rays  (John Milton Quotes) Prudence is that virtue by which we discern what is proper to be done under the various circumstances of time and place  (John Milton Quotes) Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them  (John Milton Quotes) No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities  (John Milton Quotes) When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship  (John Milton Quotes)
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