Milton, John
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Milton, John
He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
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Character
Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
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Change
Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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Books - Reading
A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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Books - Reading
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
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Books - Reading
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God s image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
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Books - Reading
Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity, no savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer will dare to soil her virgin purity.
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Chastity
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
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Complaints and Complaining
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books - Reading
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.
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Christmas
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
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Death and Dying
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
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Censorship
How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother s lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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Death and Dying
Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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Communication
None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
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Freedom
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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Freedom of Speech
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
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Melancholy
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
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Fame
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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Fame
A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
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Heresy
Our country is where ever we are well off.
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Home
It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
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Eyes
The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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Knowledge
These two imparadised in one another s arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
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Lovers
Reason also is choice.
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Logic
License they mean when they cry liberty.
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Liberty
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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Hypocrisy
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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Music
A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
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Leaders and Leadership
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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Hope
They also serve who only stand and wait.
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Patience
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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Prudence
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
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Nations
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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Mind
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo s lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
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Philosophers and Philosophy
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
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Nuns
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
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Prayer
Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
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Peace
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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Revenge
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Self-esteem
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?
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Solitude
Tears such as angels weep.
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Tears
Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
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Temptation
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
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Respectability
A short retirement urges a sweet return.
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Retirement
From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o er, and epicycle, orb in orb.
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Science and Scientists
He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
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Self-control
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
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Secrets
Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
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Right and Rightness
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason s garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
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Agreement
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
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Angels
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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Childhood
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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Blindness
What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
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Evil
Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
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Astronomy
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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Age and Aging
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
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Blindness
Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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Aristocracy
And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism
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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Architecture
With thee conversing I forget all time.
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Conversation
Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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Youth
Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
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Wives
Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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Wealth
Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
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Virtue
Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
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Writers and Writing
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
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Virtue