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• Evil on itself shall back recoil.

  John Milton

  Evil, Recoil

  John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

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• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Lying

  'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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• The virtuous mind that ever walks attended
  By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

  John Milton

  Strong, Champion, Mind

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.209-11.

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• What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Share

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.52-7.

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• Solitude is sometimes best society.

  John Milton

  Solitude, Sometimes

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• That power Which erring men call Chance.

  John Milton

  Men, Erring, Chance

  'Comus' (1637) l. 586

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• Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

  John Milton

  Excellence, Firsts

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.500, Modern Library

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• What hath night to do with sleep?

  John Milton

  Sleep, Night, Insomnia

  'Comus' (1637) l. 122

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• Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

  John Milton

  Sea, Sorrow, Deep Sorrow

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.38

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• Such joy ambition finds.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Joy

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published 1667), bk.4, l.91-2.

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• Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,
  Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

  John Milton

  Life, Hate, Long

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 553

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• Danger will wink on opportunity.

  John Milton

  Opportunity, Danger

  John Milton (1839). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”

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• Time is the subtle thief of youth.

  John Milton

  Thieves, Youth, Subtle

  "How soon hath time" l. 1 (1645)

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• Hell has no benefits, only torture.

  John Milton

  Benefits, Hell, Torture

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• Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

  John Milton

  Virtue, Circumstances, Prudence

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• Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

  John Milton

  Men, Virtue, Admire

  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.42

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• The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

  John Milton

  Perfection, Parent, Grace

  John Milton (2013). “The Collected Prose Works of John Milton (Annotated Edition)”, p.318, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A bevy of fair women.

  John Milton

  Women, Men Women, Fairs

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.382

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• God made thee perfect, not immutable.

  John Milton

  Perfect, Made, Thee

  1665 Raphael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.524.

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• Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

  John Milton

  Life, Peace, War

  "To the Lord General Cromwell" l. 10 (written 1652)

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• Believe and be confirmed.

  John Milton

  Believe, Confirmation

  JOHN MILTON (2008). “Paradise Lost (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.333, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

  John Milton

  Evil, Promise, Vices

  1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

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• To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

  John Milton

  Suffering, Weakness, Miserable

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 157

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• God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.

  John Milton

  Night, Men, Day And Night

  John Milton (1779). “Paradise lost, a poem in twelve books: in two volumes”, p.192

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• Retiring from the popular noise, I seek
  This unfrequented place to find some ease.

  John Milton

  Retirement, Ease, Noise

  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.172

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