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• The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.

  John Milton

  Self, Issues, May

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• This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

  John Milton

  Thee, Unwise, Servitude

  1665 Abdiel to Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.178-81.

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• Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

  John Milton

  Sheep, Hook, Mouths

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 114

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• For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.

  John Milton

  Ease, Littles, Frail

  1637 Lycidas, l.152-3.

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• Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.

  John Milton

  Sports, Laughter, Nymphs

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.59

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• And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

  John Milton

  Light, Umpires, Safe

  1665 Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.3, l.194-7.

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• And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

  John Milton

  Shepherds, Tales

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 63

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• Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Sports, Thinking, Hair

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

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• The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.

  John Milton

  House, Towers, Temples

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.289, Pearson Education

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• A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

  John Milton

  Night, Historical, Care

  John Milton (1854). “Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston”, p.425

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• Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

  John Milton

  Flesh, States, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 957

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• The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

  John Milton

  Morning, Ambition, Men

  'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 4, l. 220

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• God is thy law, thou mine.

  John Milton

  Law, Paradise Lost Book 9, Mines

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 637

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• In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

  John Milton

  Nature, May, Steps

  1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.511-12.

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• The planets in their station list'ning stood.

  John Milton

  Sky, Lists, Planets

  John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book VII. - XII.]: 2”, p.56

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• Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

  John Milton

  Earth, Mixtures, Divinity

  'Comus' (1637) l. 244

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• Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Vision, Gold

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 678

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• I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs
  By the known rules of ancient liberty,
  When straight a barbarous noise environs me
  Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.

  John Milton

  Dog, Owl, Age

  'Sonnet' 12 'I did but prompt the age' (1673)

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• Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

  John Milton

  Letting Go, Tragedy, Divinity

  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.425

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• If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

  John Milton

  Differences, Scripture, Duty

  John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.444

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• And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

  John Milton

  Caring, Air, Pageantry

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

  John Milton

  Eye, Sky, Soul

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.114

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• Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

  John Milton

  Firsts, Rafters, Courtesy

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.92

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• Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

  John Milton

  Country, Dresses, Herbs

  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.396

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• Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

  John Milton

  Men, Law, Female

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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