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• Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Land, Understanding

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.112

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• Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

  John Milton

  Art, Father, Should

  John Milton, Raymond de Verninac de Saint Maur, Elijah Fenton (1784). “Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books”, p.73

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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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• Day and night,
  Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
  Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.

  John Milton

  Time, Night, Fire

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.508, BookCaps Study Guides

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• For men to tell how human life began
  Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

  John Milton

  Life, Men, Humans

  1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.250-1.

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• Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

  John Milton

  Life, Arms

  John Milton (1754). “Paradise Lost”, p.288

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• It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
  Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
  That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
  But what it is, hard is to say,
  Harder to hit.

  John Milton

  Life, Winning, Long

  John Milton (1836). “The Poetical Works of John Milton... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author Together with”, p.309

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• This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

  John Milton

  Patience, Stars, Sea

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

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• Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

  John Milton

  Poetry, Age, Ornaments

  "Paradise Lost". The Verse, 1668.

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• Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought
  The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
  Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

  John Milton

  Truth, Honesty, Fighting

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 6, l. 29

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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  May, Riches, Soil

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

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• The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

  John Milton

  Dark, Moon, Night

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 86

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• Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

  John Milton

  Angel, Sight, Host

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.315, Pearson Education

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• Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.

  John Milton

  Majestic, Sober, Demure

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson”, p.191

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• Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Towers, Architecture

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 748

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• His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.

  John Milton

  Support, Steps, Burning

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 292

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• A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

  John Milton

  Time, Army, Ice

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

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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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• Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

  John Milton

  Dream, Moon, Sides

  John Milton, Henry Stebbing (1836). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.25

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• With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

  John Milton

  Love, Hue, Red

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.197

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• With eyes Of conjugal attraction unreprov'd. Imparadised in one another's arms. With thee conversing I forget all time. And feel that I am happier than I know.

  John Milton

  Time, Eye, Arms

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• The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

  John Milton

  Lakes, Keys, Two

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 108

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• Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

  John Milton

  Plato, Simple, Poetry

  'Of Education' (1644)

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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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• 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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