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250 Quotes for 'John Milton' in the Database.
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. . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
Topic: Adventure
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 439)
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Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
Topic: Agriculture
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 205)
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If by fire
Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold.
Topic: Alchemy
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 439)
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Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 263)
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Such joy ambition finds.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 92)
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But what will not ambition and revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd, obnoxious first and last
To basest things.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 168)
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If at great things thou would'st arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;
Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,
While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
Topic: Ambition
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 426)
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In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 713)
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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Comus (l. 207)
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For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 423)
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Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 681)
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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.
Topic: Apparitions
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 350)
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
Topic: Appetite
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 546)
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To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once
Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent
Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.
Topic: Apples
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 584)
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Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge
Rose, like an exhalation.
Topic: Architecture
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 710)
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Nor did there want
Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.
Topic: Architecture
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 715)
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The hasty multitude
Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise,
And some the architect: his hand was known
In heaven by many a tower'd structure high,
Where scepter'd angels held their residence,
And sat as princes.
Topic: Architecture
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 730)
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And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man, the greater to have rule by day,
The less by night, altern.
Topic: Astronomy
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 346)
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
Topic: Athens
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 240)
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain!
Blind among enemies, O worse than chains,
Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!
Topic: Blindness
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 67)
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O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon,
Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse,
Without all hope of day.
Topic: Blindness
Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 80)
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These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot,
Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear
Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year,
Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.
Topic: Blindness
Source: Sonnet XXII (l. 1)
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills reason it selfe.
Topic: Books
Source: None
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'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity;
She that has that is clad in complete steel,
And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,
May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths,
Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds;
Where, through the sacred rays of chastity,
No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer,
Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
Topic: Chastity
Source: Comus (l. 420)
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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lacky her,
Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
Topic: Chastity
Source: Comus (l. 453)
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Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
Topic: Choice
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 47)
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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
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And boldly venture to whatever place
Farthest from pain?
Topic: Choice
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 889)
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The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
Topic: Christ
Source: Lycidas (l. 109)
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Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought
The better fight.
Topic: Christianity
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 29)
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CHRISTMAS DAY ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY This the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. That glorious form, that light insufferable, And that far-beaming blaze majesty, Wherewith he wont at Heaven's high council-table To sit the midst of Trinal Unity He laid aside, and, here with us to be. Forsook the courts of everlasting day, And chose with us a darksome house of mortal clay. Say, Heavenly Muse, shall not thy sacred vein Afford a present to the Infant God? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain, To welcome him to this his new abode, Now while the heaven, by the Sun's team untrod, Hath took no print of the approaching light, And all the spangled host keep watch in squadrons bright? See how from far upon the eastern road The star-led wizards haste with odours sweet! Oh, run! present them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet; Have thou the honour first thy Lord to greet, And join thy voice unto the Angel Quire, From out his secret altar touched with hallowed fire.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work, or His own gifts. Who best Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.".
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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[If] there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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This is the month, and this the happy morn,
Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King,
Of wedded maid and virgin mother born,
Our great redemption from above did bring,
For so the holy sages once did sing,
That He our deadly forfeit should release,
And with His Father work us a perpetual peace.
Topic: Christmas
Source: Hymn--On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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Ring out ye crystal spheres!
Once bless our human ears,
If ye have power to touch our senses so;
And let your silver chime
Move in melodious time,
And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow;
And with your ninefold harmony
Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Topic: Christmas
Source: On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (st. 13), a hymn
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Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.
Topic: Cities
Source: L'Allegro (l. 117)
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The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.
Topic: Cities
Source: L'Allegro (l. 117)
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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
Topic: Clouds
Source: Comus (l. 22)
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There does a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.
Topic: Clouds
Source: Comus (l. 223)
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So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
Topic: Clouds
Source: Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
Topic: Clouds
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 490)
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While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the barn door
Stoutly struts his dames before.
Topic: Cocks
Source: L'Allegro
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He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself his own dungeon.
Topic: Conscience
Source: Comus (l. 381)
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Now conscience wakes despair
That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory
Of what he was, what is, and what must be
Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!
Topic: Conscience
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 23)
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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.
Topic: Conscience
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 842)
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Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
Topic: Conscience
Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 130)
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But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,
The Cherub Contemplation.
Topic: Contemplation
Source: Il Penseroso (l. 51)
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In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,
In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high
Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;
And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
Topic: Contemplation
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 555)
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With thee conversing I forget all time:
All seasons and their change, all please alike.
Topic: Conversation
Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 639), Eve speaking to Adam
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