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• In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

  John Milton

  Ayurveda, Quality, Hue

  Samson Agonistes Preface

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• Zeal and duty are not slow
  But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

  John Milton

  Opportunity, Waiting, Duty

  'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 3, l. 173

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• Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

  John Milton

  Gay, Taught, Fence

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.220, Pearson Education

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• From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

  John Milton

  Spring, Genius, Pale

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.21

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• What is dark within me, illumine.

  John Milton

  Dark

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• Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

  John Milton

  Plato, Simple, Poetry

  'Of Education' (1644)

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• He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

  John Milton

  Flames, Gone, Fuel

  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.217

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• Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

  John Milton

  Justice, May, Mercy

  John Milton, Samuel Johnson, John Evans (1799). “Milton's Paradise lost: with the life of the author ; to which is prefixed the celebrated critique by Sam Johnson LLD.”, p.283

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• All hell broke loose.

  John Milton

  Hell, Broke

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 917 (1667). "Hell were broken loose" appears in Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor act 3, sc. 4 (1601).

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• First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

  John Milton

  Kings, Sacrifice, Fire

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 01”

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• Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.

  John Milton

  Winning, Voice, Numbers

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• So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

  John Milton

  Men, Goes On, World

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.454

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• And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

  John Milton

  Wine, Son, Night

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 500

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• O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

  John Milton

  War, Night, Men

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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• His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

  John Milton

  Nimble, Airy, Command

  'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) sect. 12, p. 55

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• Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Paradise, Thee

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

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• For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

  John Milton

  Kind, Plagiarism, Borrowing

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• These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

  John Milton

  Parent, Parenthood, Good Parent

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.210

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• Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

  John Milton

  Men, Devil, Shame

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.79

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• None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

  John Milton

  Wise, Men, Giving

  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.139

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• I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Deeds, Doers

  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.242

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• And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

  John Milton

  Peace, Calm, Quiet

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 45

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• Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

  John Milton

  Names, Heaven, Satan

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 658

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• Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

  John Milton

  Wise, Dream, Thinking

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 172

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• A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

  John Milton

  Dark, Night, World

  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.206

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