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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

John Milton

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

John Milton

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

John Milton

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

John Milton

The timely dew of sleep.

John Milton

Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

John Milton

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

John Milton

Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

John Milton

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

John Milton

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

John Milton

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

John Milton

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

John Milton

In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

John Milton

Reason is also choice.

John Milton

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

John Milton

Every cloud has a silver lining.

John Milton

Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

John Milton

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

John Milton

But infinite in pardon is my Judge.

John Milton

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

John Milton

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

John Milton

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

John Milton

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

John Milton

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

John Milton

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

John Milton

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

John Milton

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

John Milton

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

John Milton

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

John Milton

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

John Milton

My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

John Milton

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

John Milton

Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

John Milton

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

John Milton

Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

John Milton

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

John Milton

Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

John Milton

What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

John Milton

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

John Milton

So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.

John Milton

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.

John Milton

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

John Milton

The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.

John Milton

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

John Milton

Our reason is our law.

John Milton

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

John Milton

Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

John Milton

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

John Milton
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