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• Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

  John Milton

  War, Waste

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 783

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• His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

  John Milton

  Power

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.370

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• Death from sin no power can separate.

  John Milton

  Sin, Immortality

  John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.217

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• And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.

  John Milton

  Self, Earth, Centre

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.7, l.242.

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• The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

  John Milton

  Men, Atheism, Liberty

  John Milton (2012). “John Milton Prose: Major Writings on Liberty, Politics, Religion, and Education”, p.680, John Wiley & Sons

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• Calm of mind, all passion spent.

  John Milton

  Passion, Mind, Calm

  Samson Agonistes l. 1755 (1671)

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• Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

  John Milton

  Jealous, Understanding, Lovers

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, John GILLIES (D.D., Minister of the College Church, Glasgow.) (1793). “Milton's Paradise Lost illustrated with Texts of Scripture, by John Gillies ... Second edition, with additions. (The Life of Mr. John Milton [by Elijah Fenton].).”, p.144

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• If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

  John Milton

  Men, Thinking, Regulation

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• Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.

  John Milton

  Life, Daughter, Father

  John Milton (1822). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author ...”, p.216

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• Death to life is crown or shame.

  John Milton

  Crowns, Life Is, Shame

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.1579.

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• Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

  John Milton

  Crow, Devil, Awful

  John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.348

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• Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

  John Milton

  Art, Bliss, Enormous

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.400

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• At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

  John Milton

  Stars, Heaven, Unseen

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.471, Mercer University Press

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• The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Nymphs, Liberty

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 31

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• Where all life dies death lives.

  John Milton

  Death, Life Death, Dies

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 620

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• What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.

  John Milton

  Running, Grief, Men

  John Milton (1752). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.425

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• Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

  John Milton

  Answers, Deeds

  John Milton (1698). “A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works: Both English and Latin. With Som Papers Never Before Publish'd. In Three Volumes. To which is Prefix'd The Life of the Author, Containing, Besides the History of His Works, Several Extraordinary Characters of Men and Books, Sects, Parties and Opinions”, p.545

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• Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

  John Milton

  Flower, Paradise On Earth, Rose

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 256

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• A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

  John Milton

  Hurtful, Principles, May

  John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.379

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• Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

  John Milton

  Cures

  John Milton (1832). “Paradise Lost. [With a portrait.]”, p.28

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• Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

  John Milton

  Long, Soul, Pageantry

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 125

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• A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Men, Race

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• In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Lovely, Naked

  John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book I. - VI.]: 1”, p.283

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• Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

  John Milton

  Revenge, Victory, Ifs

  John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.52

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• And feel that I am happier than I know.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Feels, Knows

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 280

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