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• The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

  John Milton

  Six, World, Magnificent

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 7, l. 563

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• The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

  John Milton

  Kings, People, Derivatives

  John Milton (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton: The tenure of kings and magistrates ; Areopagitica ; Tracts on the Commonwealth ; Observations on Ormond's peace ; Letters of States, etc. ; Brief notes on Dr. Griffith's sermon ; Of Reformation in England ; Of prelatical episcopacy ; /The reason of Church government urged against prelacy of true religion, heresy, schism, toleration ; Of civil power in ecclesiastical causes”, p.11

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• Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Morning, Bird

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 639 (1667)

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• Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Everyday, Thankfulness

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• For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

  John Milton

  Evil, Bait, News

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1538

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• Solitude is sometimes the best society.

  John Milton

  Solitude, Sometimes

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• In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

  John Milton

  Nature, Spring, Air

  'Of Education' (1644) 'Their Exercise'

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• Antichrist is Mammon's son.

  John Milton

  Son, Antichrist

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.402

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• My sentence is for open war.

  John Milton

  War, Sentences

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 51

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• I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

  John Milton

  Life, Patience, Integrity

  John Milton, Charles Symmons (1806). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author”, p.209

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• Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

  John Milton

  Contentment, Enjoy, Enjoyment

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 364

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• Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

  John Milton

  Blood, Ink, Printing

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• Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

  John Milton

  Garden, Two, Joy

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.65-9.

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• In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

  John Milton

  Intention, Ends, Conversation

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.187

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• For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

  John Milton

  Hypocrite, Angel, Men

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 682

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• For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

  John Milton

  Strong, Errors, Atheism

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• Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

  John Milton

  Steps, Hell

  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.235

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• Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Silence, Midnight

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.157

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• Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, Steel, Stubborn

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122

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• Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

  John Milton

  Death, Lying, Sunset

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• And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

  John Milton

  Garden, Add, Leisure

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 49

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• Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

  John Milton

  Mother, Art, Eye

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

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• Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

  John Milton

  Sea, Sorrow, Deep Sorrow

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.38

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• My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

  John Milton

  Wise, Heart, Perfect

  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.99

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• More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

  John Milton

  Fall, Voice, Evil

  John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.8

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