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• Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

  John Milton

  Too Much, Taught, Drink

  John Milton (2003). “The Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.445, Hackett Publishing

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• Ride the air In whirlwind.

  John Milton

  Air, Whirlwind

  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.413

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• Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

  John Milton

  Song, Soul, Mazes

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 555

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• Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

  John Milton

  Moving, Numbers, Harmonious

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?

  John Milton

  War, Boots, Defence

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 558

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• Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd
  Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

  John Milton

  Wind, Meteors, Streaming

  John Milton, John Rice (1766). “Paradise Lost ... With notes of various authors, by John Rice”, p.29

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• For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

  John Milton

  Design, Ease, Wealth

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

  John Milton

  Eye, Squares, Trials

  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.298

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• This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

  John Milton

  Light, Waiting, Darkness

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.47

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• What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

  John Milton

  Heaven, What If, Shadow

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 574

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• Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

  John Milton

  Years, Wings, Age

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 44

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• And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.

  John Milton

  Dragons, Order, Fowl

  John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes (1957). “Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.592, Hackett Publishing

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• And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

  John Milton

  Grace, Wish, Saws

  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.284

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• Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

  John Milton

  Memories, Despair, Slumber

  John Milton (1831). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.76

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• Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

  John Milton

  Memorial, Mutual Love, Crowns

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.122

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• Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

  John Milton

  Children, Book, Winning

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.468

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• And in their motions harmony divine
  So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear
  Listens delighted.

  John Milton

  Music, Ears, Tone

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 620

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• Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Joy, Delight

  John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.262

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• Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?

  John Milton

  Pain, Heaven, Suffering

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• By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.

  John Milton

  Fate, Greatness, Hands

  John Milton (1866). “Treasures from the prose writings of John Milton”, p.389

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• United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

  John Milton

  Hazards, Equal, Enterprise

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 88

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• Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

  John Milton

  Faith, Causes, Failing

  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.391

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• God, who oft descends to visit men
  Unseen, and through their habitations walks
  To mark their doings.

  John Milton

  God, Men, Unseen

  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.522

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• For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

  John Milton

  Book, Evil, Meat

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.173

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• He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses
  The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed
  Not incorruptible of faith, not proof
  Against temptation.

  John Milton

  Temptation, Lasts, Corruption

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.526, Modern Library

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