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• Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

  John Milton

  Food, Cooking, Black

  John Milton (1869). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.217

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• Methought I saw my late espoused saint.

  John Milton

  Saint, Saws, Late

  c.1658 Sonnets, no.19,'Methought I Saw'.

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• Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

  John Milton

  Law, Sin, Remove

  John Milton (1754). “Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes”, p.417

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• Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

  John Milton

  Eye, Eternity, Ends

  John Milton (1732). “Milton's Paradise Lost”

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• Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Midnight, Revelry

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.186, Pearson Education

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• Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

  John Milton

  Speculation

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.12, l.588-9.

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• They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.

  John Milton

  Unity, Pieces, Body

  "Areopagitica". Book by John Milton, 1644.

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• Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.

  John Milton

  Men, Oracles, Wells

  John Milton (1853). “Milton's poetical works: with life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.59

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• Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

  John Milton

  Morning, Stars, Dancing

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.66

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• Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

  John Milton

  Men, Cities, Towers

  'L'Allegro' (1645) l. 117

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• The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

  John Milton

  Heaven, Despair, Spirit

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 44

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• The rising world of waters dark and deep.

  John Milton

  Dark, Water, Rising

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.70

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• No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

  John Milton

  War, Battle, Sound

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 4

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• Freely we serve,
  Because we freely love, as in our will
  To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

  John Milton

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 538

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• Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

  John Milton

  Men, Faults, Should

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.397, Penguin

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• Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

  John Milton

  Moon, Light, Sea

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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• Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

  John Milton

  Nature, Responsibility, Done

  John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.263

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• One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

  John Milton

  Dream, Drinking, Alcohol

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.379

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• Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

  John Milton

  Grief, Rivers, Joy

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• Who aspires must down as low
  As high he soar'd.

  John Milton

  Lows, Soar, Paradise Lost Book 9

  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.147

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• But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

  John Milton

  Art, Soul, Lust

  John Milton, “Comus”

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• Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

  John Milton

  Death, Ready

  John Milton (1872). “English Poems”, p.142

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• Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.

  John Milton

  Heart, Men, Spirit

  John Milton (1749). “Poetical works. A new ed. with notes of various authors by Thomas Newton. (With copper-plates.)”, p.413

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• This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

  John Milton

  Light, Darkness, Horror

  John Milton (1824). “The poetical works of John Milton: with notes of various authors, principally from the editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is prefixed Newton's life of Milton”, p.94

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• By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

  John Milton

  Dream, Truth, Distance

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.210

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