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• Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Looks, Gorgeous

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• My sentence is for open war.

  John Milton

  War, Sentences

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 51

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• Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

  John Milton

  Virtue, Chimes, Teach

  'Comus' (1637) l. 1019

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• As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

  John Milton

  Men, Evil, Good And Evil

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

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• He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
  Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield
  Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,
  Behind him cast; the broad circumference
  Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
  Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
  At evening from the top of Fésolè,
  Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
  Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

  John Milton

  Moving, Science, Artist

  John Milton (1855). “The complete poetical works of John Milton, with life”, p.10

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• Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Morning, Bird

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 639 (1667)

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• He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

  John Milton

  Giving, Done, Covenant

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.167

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• The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

  John Milton

  Six, World, Magnificent

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 7, l. 563

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• And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

  John Milton

  Prayer, Cry, Incessant

  John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost”, p.310

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• Where peace
  And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
  That comes to all.

  John Milton

  Hope, Peace, Doleful

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• Antichrist is Mammon's son.

  John Milton

  Son, Antichrist

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.402

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• Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.

  John Milton

  Time, Fire, Elements

  1665 Mammon. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.274-7.

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• A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

  John Milton

  Paradise, Fool, Broads

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.137

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• For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

  John Milton

  Evil, Bait, News

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1538

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• I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

  John Milton

  Life, Patience, Integrity

  John Milton, Charles Symmons (1806). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author”, p.209

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• Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

  John Milton

  Stronger, Great Things, Earnest

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

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• In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

  John Milton

  Men, Causes, Argument

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.903-4.

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• Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

  John Milton

  Art, Lying, Government

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

  John Milton

  Contentment, Enjoy, Enjoyment

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 364

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• See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

  John Milton

  Love, Golden Days, Joy

  John Milton (1801). “Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711”, p.77

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• In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

  John Milton

  Intention, Ends, Conversation

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.187

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• Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

  John Milton

  Garden, Two, Joy

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.65-9.

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• Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

  John Milton

  Blood, Ink, Printing

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• Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

  John Milton

  Mother, Art, Eye

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

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• Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

  John Milton

  Death, Lying, Sunset

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