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• A short retirement urges a sweet return.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Retirement, Return

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 249

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• Evil, be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Evil

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 110 (1667)

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• And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

  John Milton

  Faith, Helping, Virtue

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.65

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• What is dark within me, illumine.

  John Milton

  Dark

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• In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

  John Milton

  Ayurveda, Quality, Hue

  Samson Agonistes Preface

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• Zeal and duty are not slow
  But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

  John Milton

  Opportunity, Waiting, Duty

  'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 3, l. 173

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• But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

  John Milton

  Sex, Gay, Wind

  John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

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• For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

  John Milton

  Kind, Plagiarism, Borrowing

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• We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

  John Milton

  Temples, Christ, Force

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.142

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• Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

  John Milton

  Happiness, May, Pairs

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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• Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find
  Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

  John Milton

  Offering, Path, Ends

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• Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

  John Milton

  Passion, Judgement, Free Will

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.124

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• Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!

  John Milton

  Light, Holy, Hail

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.5-6.

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• How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

  John Milton

  Fall, Night, Wings

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

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• Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

  John Milton

  Way, Paradise, Hell

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)

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• O execrable son! so to aspire
  Above his brethren, to himself assuming
  Authority usurped, from God not given.
  He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,
  Dominion absolute; that right we hold
  By his donation; but man over men
  He made not lord; such title to himself
  Reserving, human left from human free.

  John Milton

  Son, Men, Titles

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.365

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• Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
  To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
  Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  John Milton

  Crazy, Ambition, Mad

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

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• And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

  John Milton

  Revenge, Power, May

  John Milton (1850). “Paradise Lost”, p.23

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• The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

  John Milton

  Knowledge, Firsts, Knows

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 293 (1671) See Socrates 2

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• Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

  John Milton

  Math, Umpires, Decision

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 907

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• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

  John Milton

  Echoes, Nymphs, Unseen

  'Comus' (1637) l. 230

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• As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace?

  John Milton

  Children, Native Language, Delight

  John Milton (1748). “The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton: Containing Paradise Lost, ... Paradise Regain'd, ... Samson Agonistes, ... And His Poems on Several Occasions. With a Tractate of Education. In Two Volumes”, p.58

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• Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.

  John Milton

  Ocean, Rich, Various

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.254

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• The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

  John Milton

  Summer, Retirement, Plato

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave.

  John Milton

  Moving, Misery, Miserable

  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.369

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