| 254 Famous Quotes by John Milton
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“Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old,
When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones,
Forget not.”
Worship Quotes Source: On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
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“How often from the steep
Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard
Celestial voices to the midnight air,
Sole, or responsive each to other's note,
Singing their great Creator?”
Worship Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 680)
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“Execrable son! so to aspire
Above his brethren, to himself assuming
Authority usurp'd, from God not given.
He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
Dominion absolute; that right we hold
By his donation; but man over men
He made not lord; such title to himself
Reserving, human left from human free.”
Slavery Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 64)
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“Gorgons, and Hydras, and Chimaeras dire.”
Visions Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 628)
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“O visions ill foreseen! Better had I
Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne
My part of evil only.”
Visions Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XI, l. 763)
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“Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.”
Fire Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 77)
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“Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,
They to they grassy couch, these to their nests,
Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.”
Evening Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 598)
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“Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.”
Evening Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 278)
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“The palpable obscure.”
Obscurity Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 406)
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“Towered cities please us then,
And the busy hum of men.”
Cities Quotes Source: L'Allegro (l. 117)
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“The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.”
Cities Quotes Source: L'Allegro (l. 117)
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“Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures rational.”
Unity Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 496)
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“Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought
The better fight.”
Service Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 29)
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“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Service Quotes Source: Sonnet--On His Blindness
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“Left that command
Sole daughter of his voice.”
Duty Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 652)
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“For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.”
Sympathy Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 357)
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“His fair large front and eye sublime declared
Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.”
Royalty Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 300)
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“Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.”
Power Quotes Source: Comus (l. 816)
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“Power ought to serve as a check to power.”
Power Quotes Source: Comus (l. 816)
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“Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?”
Treachery Quotes Source: Comus (l. 697)
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“Thence to the famous orators repair,
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democratie,
Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.”
Oratory Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 267)
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“With thee conversing I forget all time:
All seasons and their change, all please alike.”
Conversation Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 639), Eve speaking to Adam
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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.”
Ambition Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 263)
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“Such joy ambition finds.”
Ambition Quotes 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.”
Ambition Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 168)
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