| 254 Famous Quotes by John Milton
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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.”
Chastity Quotes Source: Comus (l. 453)
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“That in our proper motion we ascend
Up to our native seat; descent and fall
To give us is adverse.”
Progress Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 75)
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“The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear
So charming left his voice, that he awhile
Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.”
Voice Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 1)
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“Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.”
Darkness Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 62)
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“For neither man nor angel can discern
Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks
Invisible, except to God alone,
By his permissive will, through heav'n and earth.”
Hypocrisy Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 682)
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“Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.”
Despair Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 141)
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“Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.”
Despair Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 44)
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“If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.”
Failure Quotes Source: Comus (l. 597)
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“Or arm th' obdured breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.”
Patience Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 568)
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“Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.”
Agriculture Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 205)
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“If weakness may excuse,
What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it?
All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore,
With God or man will gain thee no remission.”
Weakness Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 831)
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“Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras.”
Flags Quotes Source: Comus (l. 604)
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“The imperial ensign; which, full high advanced,
Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind.”
Flags Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 536)
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“Under spreading ensigns moving nigh, in slow
But firm battalion.”
Flags Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 533)
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“Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed.”
Work Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 618)
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“The work under our labour grows
Luxurious by restraint.”
Work Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 208)
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“A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know
More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's latest image.”
Zeal Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 565)
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“But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.”
Zeal Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 849)
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“But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!”
Zeal Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 895)
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“But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
The better reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest counsels.”
Reason Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 112)
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“Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.”
Reason Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 40)
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“Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.”
Reason Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 507)
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“So sang they, and the empyrean rung
With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.”
Sabbath Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 632)
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“And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.”
Sound Quotes Source: Comus (l. 550)
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“Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds,
At which the universal host up sent
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond
Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.”
Sound Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 540)
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