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• Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Wind, Deeds

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.154

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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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• Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

  John Milton

  Wise, Thinking, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 172

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• Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

  John Milton

  God, Temptation, Taste

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.9

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• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
  Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
  Or arm th' obdured breast
  With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, White, Eggs

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• Come and trip it as ye go
  On the light fantastic toe.

  John Milton

  Dance, Light, Ballet

  "L'Allegro" l. 33 (1645)

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• That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

  John Milton

  Time, Revenge, Hate

  1665 Satan gazes upon Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.9, l.463-6.

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• If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

  John Milton

  Failure, Earth, Pillars

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1798). “Comus: A Mask Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634, Before the Earl of Bridgewater ...”, p.86

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• My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.

  John Milton

  Men, Air, Earth

  1634 Comus, A Mask, opening lines.

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• God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?

  John Milton

  Church, Doe, Firsts

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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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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• Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

  John Milton

  Children, Mean, Law

  John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”

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• What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

  John Milton

  Book, Dark, Men

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 22 (1667) See Housman 5; Milton 49

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• O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.

  John Milton

  Strong, Wine, Thinking

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.380

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• O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

  John Milton

  Flower, Fading

  'On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough' (1673) st. 1

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

  John Milton

  Science, Missing, Impossible

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, John Evans (1799). “Milton's Paradise Lost: With the Life of the Author ; to which is Prefixed the Celebrated Critique by Sam Johnson LLD.”, p.177

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• Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

  John Milton

  Rags, Arms, Noise

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.439

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• Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

  John Milton

  Moving, Heaven, Sound

  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.332

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• It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

  John Milton

  Journey, Heaven, Path

  John Milton, John Hunter (1864). “Milton's Comus, L'allegro, and Il Penseroso: With Numerous Illustrative Notes &c”, p.19

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• A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 55

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• God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

  John Milton

  Time, Law, Forget

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

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