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• Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, oft, the woods among, I woo, to hear thy even-song.

  John Milton

  Song, Sweet, Bird

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• Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

  John Milton

  Men, Mind, Body

  1665 Adamto Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.618-20.

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• Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

  John Milton

  Truth, Encounters, Truth And Falsehood

  Areopagitica (1644) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 28

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• And out of good still to find means of evil.

  John Milton

  Mean, Evil, Find Me

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 165

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• Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Looks, Flow

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.205

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• So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

  John Milton

  Abuse, Littles, Worst

  John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.248, Penguin

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• The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

  John Milton

  Morning, Ambition, Men

  'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 4, l. 220

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• The planets in their station list'ning stood.

  John Milton

  Sky, Lists, Planets

  John Milton (1749). “Paradise Lost. A Poem. In Twelve Books [Book VII. - XII.]: 2”, p.56

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• So many laws argues so many sins.

  John Milton

  Law, Arguing, Sin

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.444

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• And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

  John Milton

  Book, Eye, Men

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• With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

  John Milton

  Confusion, Confusing, Ruins

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 995

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• If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.

  John Milton

  Differences, Scripture, Duty

  John Milton (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.444

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• Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

  John Milton

  Heart, Good Luck, Son

  John Milton (2004). “The Complete Poems”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Bird

  John Milton (1761). “L'allegro, Ed Il Penseroso: Set to Musick by Mr. Handel”, p.7

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• In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

  John Milton

  Land, Share, Vain

  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.482

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• For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

  John Milton

  Sex, Essence, Enmity

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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• Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

  John Milton

  Daughter, Shapes, Cups

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors”, p.258

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• To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

  John Milton

  Life, Lying, Prime

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• Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

  John Milton

  Men, Law, Female

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

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• His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Light, Digestion

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

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• And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

  John Milton

  Jewelry, Train, Gems

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• God is thy law, thou mine.

  John Milton

  Law, Paradise Lost Book 9, Mines

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 637

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• They also serve who only stand and wait.

  John Milton

  Patience, Waiting, Patience And Waiting

  "When I consider how my light is spent" l. 14 (1673)

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• Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

  John Milton

  Sex, Enmity, Spirit

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 423

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

  John Milton

  Envy, Sin, Lord

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.251, Pearson Education

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