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• What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

  John Milton

  Fall, Tears, Faults

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.392, Mercer University Press

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• O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

  John Milton

  Joy, Fleeting, Paradise

  1665 Adam's lament. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.741-2.

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• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

  John Milton

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Envy

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

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• So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

  John Milton

  Hope, Fear, Farewell

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

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• Tears such as angels weep.

  John Milton

  Angel, Tears, Cry

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.23

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• Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

  John Milton

  Art, Lying, Government

  John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

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• In naked beauty most adorned.

  John Milton

  Sexy, Naked

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• Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

  John Milton

  Arguing, Fame, Paradise Lost Book 9

  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.297

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• Hope elevates, and joy
  Brightens his crest.

  John Milton

  Hope, Joy, Paradise Lost Book 9

  John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.179

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• Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

  John Milton

  Excellence, Firsts

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.500, Modern Library

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• Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

  John Milton

  Men, Vices, Action

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.469

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• Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

  John Milton

  Hands, Office, Way

  1665 Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.1001-6.

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• Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

  John Milton

  Law, Sin, Weak

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

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• So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

  John Milton

  Sea, Land, Prey

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 440

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• Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

  John Milton

  Smell, Enemy, Crafts

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• And feel by turns the bitter change
  Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

  John Milton

  Bogs, Bitter, Fierce

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 598

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• A bevy of fair women.

  John Milton

  Women, Men Women, Fairs

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.382

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• I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

  John Milton

  Running, Race, Dust

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

  John Milton

  Men, Evil, Good And Evil

  1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

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• Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

  John Milton

  Men, Good Man, Atheism

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

  John Milton

  Stronger, Great Things, Earnest

  John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

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• See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

  John Milton

  Love, Golden Days, Joy

  John Milton (1801). “Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711”, p.77

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• Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

  John Milton

  Virtue, Chimes, Teach

  'Comus' (1637) l. 1019

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• A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

  John Milton

  Paradise, Fool, Broads

  John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.137

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• He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend
  Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield
  Ethereal temper, massy, large and round,
  Behind him cast; the broad circumference
  Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb
  Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views
  At evening from the top of Fésolè,
  Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands,
  Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

  John Milton

  Moving, Science, Artist

  John Milton (1855). “The complete poetical works of John Milton, with life”, p.10

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