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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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• And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

  John Milton

  Fall, Woe, Bliss

  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.352

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• Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.

  John Milton

  God, Heart, Dark

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.9, BookCaps Study Guides

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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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• If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

  John Milton

  Pet, Pulse, Would Be

  John Milton (1760). “Paradise Regain'd ... To which is added Samson Agonistes and Poems upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. [With engraved plates.]”, p.206

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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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• So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

  John Milton

  Perseverance, Giving, Silence

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.65, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

  John Milton

  Hurt, Unjust, May

  'Comus' (1637) l. 586

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• But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

  John Milton

  Tongue, Reason, Hollow

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.41

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• These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

  John Milton

  Parent, Parenthood, Good Parent

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.210

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• Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

  John Milton

  Men, Devil, Shame

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.79

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• Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

  John Milton

  Men, Thinking, Way

  Samson Agonistes l. 293 (1671) See Housman 5; Milton 18

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• None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

  John Milton

  Wise, Men, Giving

  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.139

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• And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

  John Milton

  Peace, Calm, Quiet

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 45

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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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• But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Mind, May

  John Milton (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton ...”, p.228

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• So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

  John Milton

  Men, Goes On, World

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.454

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• And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

  John Milton

  Wine, Son, Night

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 500

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• Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

  John Milton

  Fraud, Thrown, Perplexed

  John Milton (1855). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: with Life”, p.285

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• But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!

  John Milton

  Son, Paradise, Able

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.576, Modern Library

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• Sense of pleasure we may well
  Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine,
  But live content, which is the calmest life;
  But pain is perfect misery, the worst
  Of evils, and excessive, overturns
  All patience.

  John Milton

  Pain, Evil, Perfect

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.182

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• O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

  John Milton

  Hope, Dark, Science

  Samson Agonistes l. 80 (1671) See T. S. Eliot 104

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• He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

  John Milton

  Fate, Strict, Left

  John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.351

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• All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

  John Milton

  Grace, Despair, No Fear

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.169

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• Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Book

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

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