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• Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

  John Milton

  Light, Hands, Ballet

  Comus l. 143 (1637)

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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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• 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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• Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

  John Milton

  Work, Sweat, Toil

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• Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

  John Milton

  Pride, Vices, Tongue

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• Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

  John Milton

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 750

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• The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

  John Milton

  Running, Voice, Dumb

  John Milton (1804). “Poetical Works: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author”, p.166

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• What reinforcement we may gain from hope;
  If not, what resolution from despair.

  John Milton

  Hope, Despair, May

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 190

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• Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever place Farthest from pain?

  John Milton

  Pain, Venture, Way

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1831). “Paradise lost : a poem in twelve books”, p.99

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• Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

  John Milton

  Pain, Ease, Void

  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.241

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• Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

  John Milton

  Break Through, Shining, Temptation

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

  John Milton

  Shining, Heaven, Earth

  John Milton (1847). “The Poetical Works, of John Milton: With a Memoir and Seven Embellishments”, p.171

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• This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

  John Milton

  Writing, Hands, Knowing

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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• From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

  John Milton

  Spring, Twilight, Grateful

  John Milton (1873). “The third (fourth, fifth) book of Milton's Paradise lost: with a prose tr. and notes, by J. Hunter”, p.51

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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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• Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

  John Milton

  Teaching, England, Forget

  'The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce' (1643) 'To the Parliament of England'

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• Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

  John Milton

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.102.

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• On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

  John Milton

  Doors, Sound, Thunder

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 879

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• From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

  John Milton

  Thinking, Anxiety, Arms

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1831). “Paradise Lost : a Poem in Twelve Books”, p.96

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• Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Fall, Sufficient

  1665 God speaking of Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.96-9.

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• What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.

  John Milton

  Lying, Waste, Wasting Time

  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.152

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• She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Air, Wings

  John Milton, James Prendeville (1850). “Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly Selected from Addison, Bentley, Bowle ... [et Al.] and Partly Original”, p.246

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• Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

  John Milton

  Learning, Men, Bravery

  John Locke, John Milton (1830). “Some thoughts concerning education”, p.277

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• Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

  John Milton

  Time, Elements, May

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 274

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• And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?

  John Milton

  Pain, Night, Intellectual

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 146

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