Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
JOHN MILTONThis is servitude, To serve the unwise.
More John Milton Quotes
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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other’s burden.
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
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And live like Nature’s bastards, not her sons.
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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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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
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He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
JOHN MILTON