John Milton quotes - page 6

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. (John Milton)
Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall. View quote
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Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. View quote
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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death? View quote
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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her. View quote
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Luck is the residue of design. View quote
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure! View quote
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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. View quote
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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow? View quote
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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good. View quote
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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering. (John Milton)
Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe! View quote
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. View quote
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I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming. View quote
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Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell, And devilish machinations come to nought. View quote
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Methought I saw my late espousèd saint Brought to me like Alcestis from the grave. View quote
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Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument. View quote
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Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreprovèd pleasures free. View quote
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Of which all Europe rings from side to side. View quote
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Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms, Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize, If ever deed of honour did thee please, Guard them, and him within protect from harms. View quote
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I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. (John Milton)
But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek. View quote
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Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides, Where thou perhaps under the whelming tide Visit'st the bottom of the monstrous world. View quote
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He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. View quote
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For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor; So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed; And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky. So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high, Through the dear might of him that walked the waves. View quote
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