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• Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Fall, Sufficient

  1665 God speaking of Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.96-9.

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• Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

  John Milton

  Time, Elements, May

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 274

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• Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Flower

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.164

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• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Wasting Time

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.152

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• Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

  John Milton

  Learning, Men, Bravery

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.277

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• Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!

  John Milton

  Woe, Stills, Eternal

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• And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

  John Milton

  Pain, Night, Intellectual

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 146

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• Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

  John Milton

  Peace, War, Reason

  John Milton (1861). “The first book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.26

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• Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

  John Milton

  Society, Delight, Harmony

  1665 Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.383-4.

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• God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

  John Milton

  Growth, Virtue, Vicious

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

  John Milton

  Air, Silence, Chamber

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 16

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• The teachers of our law, and to propose
  What might improve my knowledge or their own.

  John Milton

  Teacher, Knowledge, Law

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.27

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• The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

  John Milton

  Truth, Ignorance, Eye

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.387

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• Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt,
  Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled;
  Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm
  Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

  John Milton

  Hurt, Trials, Unjust

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.33

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• Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Justice, Pace

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.452, BookCaps Study Guides

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• What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

  John Milton

  Helping, God Help Me, Immortality

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• She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Air, Wings

  John Milton, James Prendeville (1850). “Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly Selected from Addison, Bentley, Bowle ... [et Al.] and Partly Original”, p.246

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• And pomp, and feast, and revelry,
  With mask, and antique pageantry,
  Such sights as youthful poets dream
  On summer eves by haunted stream.

  John Milton

  Summer, Dream, Sight

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• Time, though in Eternity, applied
  To motion, measures all things durable
  By present, past, and future.

  John Milton

  Time, Past, Eternity

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.46

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• They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces thronged and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide; They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

  John Milton

  Hands, Eden, Tears

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

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• Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

  John Milton

  Nice, Cabins, Holes

  John Milton, Thomas Warton (1799). “Comus,: A Mask: Presented at Ludlow Castle 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater, Then President of Wales”, p.53

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• The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said; But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

  John Milton

  Sheep, Doors, Wind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 123

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• And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.

  John Milton

  Faithful, Gates

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.381

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• Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

  John Milton

  War, Fighting, Air

  John Milton (1870). “Britain Under Trojan, Roman, Saxon Rule”, p.120

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• Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.

  John Milton

  Slave, Mills, Gaza

  Samson Agonistes l. 40 (1671)

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