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John Milton Inspirational Quotes (434)

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His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
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A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
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Death to life is crown or shame.
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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
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If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses
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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
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To be blind is not miserable not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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With thee conversing I forget all time.
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Good luck befriend thee, Son for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
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God shall be all in all.
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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?
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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
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Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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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.
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. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.
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