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1:Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost ,

2:He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ~ John Milton,

3:A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ~ John Milton, Areopagitica ,

4:But hail, thou Goddess, sage and holy, Hail, divinest melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the Sense of human sight. ~ John Milton,

5:Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]1. Homer - Iliad, Odyssey2. The Old Testament3. Aeschylus - Tragedies4. Sophocles - Tragedies5. Herodotus - Histories6. Euripides - Tragedies7. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War8. Hippocrates - Medical Writings9. Aristophanes - Comedies10. Plato - Dialogues11. Aristotle - Works12. Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus13. Euclid - Elements14.Archimedes - Works15. Apollonius of Perga - Conic Sections16. Cicero - Works17. Lucretius - On the Nature of Things18. Virgil - Works19. Horace - Works20. Livy - History of Rome21. Ovid - Works22. Plutarch - Parallel Lives; Moralia23. Tacitus - Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania24. Nicomachus of Gerasa - Introduction to Arithmetic25. Epictetus - Discourses; Encheiridion26. Ptolemy - Almagest27. Lucian - Works28. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations29. Galen - On the Natural Faculties30. The New Testament31. Plotinus - The Enneads32. St. Augustine - On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine33. The Song of Roland34. The Nibelungenlied35. The Saga of Burnt Njal36. St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica37. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy38. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales39. Leonardo da Vinci - Notebooks40. Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy41. Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly42. Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres43. Thomas More - Utopia44. Martin Luther - Table Talk; Three Treatises45. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel46. John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion47. Michel de Montaigne - Essays48. William Gilbert - On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies49. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote50. Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene51. Francis Bacon - Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis52. William Shakespeare - Poetry and Plays53. Galileo Galilei - Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences54. Johannes Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World55. William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals56. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan57. René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy58. John Milton - Works59. Molière - Comedies60. Blaise Pascal - The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises61. Christiaan Huygens - Treatise on Light62. Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics63. John Locke - Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education64. Jean Baptiste Racine - Tragedies65. Isaac Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology67.Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe68. Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal69. William Congreve - The Way of the World70. George Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge71. Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu - Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws73. Voltaire - Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary74. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones75. Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets ~ Mortimer J Adler,

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1:Silence was pleased. ~ John Milton

2:The helmed Cherubim, ~ John Milton

3:A bevy of fair women. ~ John Milton

4:All hell broke loose. ~ John Milton

5:For the air of youth, ~ John Milton

6:Evil, be thou my good. ~ John Milton

7:Hope elevates, and joy ~ John Milton

8:Our reason is our law. ~ John Milton

9:Reason also is choice. ~ John Milton

10:Reason is also choice. ~ John Milton

11:. . . for beauty stands ~ John Milton

12:Only supreme in misery! ~ John Milton

13:What can 'scape the eye ~ John Milton

14:Wickedness is weakness. ~ John Milton

15:God shall be all in all. ~ John Milton

16:Such joy ambition finds. ~ John Milton

17:The timely dew of sleep. ~ John Milton

18:And to thy husband's will ~ John Milton

19:Believe and be confirmed. ~ John Milton

20:Come and trip it as ye go ~ John Milton

21:Forget thyself to marble. ~ John Milton

22:The brazen throat of war. ~ John Milton

23:God is thy law, thou mine. ~ John Milton

24:Ride the air In whirlwind. ~ John Milton

25:Tears such as angels weep. ~ John Milton

26:Temper justice with mercy. ~ John Milton

27:The starry cope Of heaven. ~ John Milton

28:Zeal and duty are not slow ~ John Milton

29:Antichrist is Mammon's son. ~ John Milton

30:Dark with excessive bright. ~ John Milton

31:For no falsehood can endure ~ John Milton

32:Commands are no constraints. ~ John Milton

33:Execute their airy purposes. ~ John Milton

34:My sentence is for open war. ~ John Milton

35:Who aspires must down as low ~ John Milton

36:In naked beauty most adorned. ~ John Milton

37:O execrable son! so to aspire ~ John Milton

38:Sense of pleasure we may well ~ John Milton

39:Hide me from day's garish eye. ~ John Milton

40:Luck is the residue of design. ~ John Milton

41:Every cloud has a silver lining ~ John Milton

42:Indu'd With sanctity of reason. ~ John Milton

43:Calm of mind, all passion spent. ~ John Milton

44:Danger will wink on opportunity. ~ John Milton

45:Death to life is crown or shame. ~ John Milton

46:Every cloud has a silver lining. ~ John Milton

47:I must not quarrel with the will ~ John Milton

48:Seas wept from our deep sorrows. ~ John Milton

49:Where all life dies death lives. ~ John Milton

50:قتل الكتاب الجيد يماثل قتل إنسان ~ John Milton

51:Courage never to submit of yield. ~ John Milton

52:Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight. ~ John Milton

53:Evil on itself shall back recoil. ~ John Milton

54:So many laws argues so many sins. ~ John Milton

55:Time, though in Eternity, applied ~ John Milton

56:Virtue that wavers is not virtue. ~ John Milton

57:What hath night to do with sleep? ~ John Milton

58:What is dark within me, illumine. ~ John Milton

59:And pomp, and feast, and revelry, ~ John Milton

60:Fear of change perplexes monarchs. ~ John Milton

61:God, who oft descends to visit men ~ John Milton

62:How charming is divine philosophy! ~ John Milton

63:Imparadis'd in one another's arms. ~ John Milton

64:Live while ye may, Yet happy pair. ~ John Milton

65:Lords are lordliest in their wine. ~ John Milton

66:Our cure, to be no more; sad cure! ~ John Milton

67:The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty. ~ John Milton

68:Time is the subtle thief of youth. ~ John Milton

69:And feel by turns the bitter change ~ John Milton

70:And in their motions harmony divine ~ John Milton

71:Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n. ~ John Milton

72:Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, ~ John Milton

73:But infinite in pardon is my Judge. ~ John Milton

74:Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy. ~ John Milton

75:Faithful found among the faithless. ~ John Milton

76:Hell has no benefits, only torture. ~ John Milton

77:Me miserable! Which way shall I fly ~ John Milton

78:Solitude is sometimes best society. ~ John Milton

79:Solitude sometimes is best society. ~ John Milton

80:Where shame is, there is also fear. ~ John Milton

81:Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n. ~ John Milton

82:For men to tell how human life began ~ John Milton

83:Frei ist, wer der Vernunft gehorcht. ~ John Milton

84:I see thou art implacable, more deaf ~ John Milton

85:As in an organ from one blast of wind ~ John Milton

86:Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse. ~ John Milton

87:Death from sin no power can separate. ~ John Milton

88:God made thee perfect, not immutable. ~ John Milton

89:Praise from an enemy smells of craft. ~ John Milton

90:Sable-vested Night, eldest of things. ~ John Milton

91:Such sober certainty of waking bliss. ~ John Milton

92:What hath the night to do with sleep? ~ John Milton

93:It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, ~ John Milton

94:O Conscience, into what abyss of fears ~ John Milton

95:So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, ~ John Milton

96:The sacred influence of light appears. ~ John Milton

97:Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. ~ John Milton

98:Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. ~ John Milton

99:With diadem and sceptre high advanced, ~ John Milton

100:And feel that I am happier than I know. ~ John Milton

101:Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate ~ John Milton

102:Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear. ~ John Milton

103:Ink is the blood of the printing-press. ~ John Milton

104:Methought I saw my late espoused saint. ~ John Milton

105:Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child! ~ John Milton

106:Retiring from the popular noise, I seek ~ John Milton

107:Solitude is sometimes the best society. ~ John Milton

108:The gay motes that people the sunbeams. ~ John Milton

109:The never-ending flight Of future days. ~ John Milton

110:The teachers of our law, and to propose ~ John Milton

111:This is servitude, To serve the unwise. ~ John Milton

112:Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, ~ John Milton

113:Where more is meant than meets the ear. ~ John Milton

114:Where no hope is left, is left no fear. ~ John Milton

115:Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss. ~ John Milton

116:With thee conversing I forget all time. ~ John Milton

117:And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, ~ John Milton

118:And what the people but a herd confus'd, ~ John Milton

119:A short retirement urges a sweet return. ~ John Milton

120:A veces la soledad es la mejor compañía. ~ John Milton

121:For what is glory but the blaze of fame? ~ John Milton

122:Freely we serve, because freely we love. ~ John Milton

123:God does not need man nor his won works. ~ John Milton

124:I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, ~ John Milton

125:Laws can discover sin, but not remove it ~ John Milton

126:Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. ~ John Milton

127:Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe! ~ John Milton

128:Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. ~ John Milton

129:That power Which erring men call Chance. ~ John Milton

130:They also serve who only stand and wait. ~ John Milton

131:Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. ~ John Milton

132:A beardless cynic is the shame of nature. ~ John Milton

133:Death ready stands to interpose his dart. ~ John Milton

134:Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, ~ John Milton

135:Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. ~ John Milton

136:The rising world of waters dark and deep. ~ John Milton

137:To live a life half dead, a living death. ~ John Milton

138:WE know no time when we were not as now.. ~ John Milton

139:What reinforcement we may gain from hope; ~ John Milton

140:Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, ~ John Milton

141:Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear ~ John Milton

142:few sometimes may know, when thousands err ~ John Milton

143:From his lips/Not words alone pleased her. ~ John Milton

144:Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems. ~ John Milton

145:Here we may reign secure; and in my choice ~ John Milton

146:High on a throne of royal state, which far ~ John Milton

147:Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. ~ John Milton

148:Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness. ~ John Milton

149:Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit ~ John Milton

150:Our country is where ever we are well off. ~ John Milton

151:Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n. ~ John Milton

152:The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed. ~ John Milton

153:The virtuous mind that ever walks attended ~ John Milton

154:The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, ~ John Milton

155:Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words ~ John Milton

156:And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train. ~ John Milton

157:Angels contented with their face in heaven, ~ John Milton

158:Arm’d with Hell flames and fury all at once ~ John Milton

159:Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses. ~ John Milton

160:Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. ~ John Milton

161:Few sometimes may know, when thousands err. ~ John Milton

162:New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large. ~ John Milton

163:Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all. ~ John Milton

164:Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe! ~ John Milton

165:Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day. ~ John Milton

166:To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new. ~ John Milton

167:To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. ~ John Milton

168:Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n ~ John Milton

169:And grace that won who saw to wish her stay. ~ John Milton

170:And out of good still to find means of evil. ~ John Milton

171:But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, ~ John Milton

172:He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend ~ John Milton

173:I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs ~ John Milton

174:This is the month, and this the happy morn, ~ John Milton

175:Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. ~ John Milton

176:To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering. ~ John Milton

177:Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride. ~ John Milton

178:Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth ~ John Milton

179:Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge ~ John Milton

180:And to the faithful: death, the gate of life. ~ John Milton

181:Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape ~ John Milton

182:Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. ~ John Milton

183:Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. ~ John Milton

184:Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind. ~ John Milton

185:Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight. ~ John Milton

186:Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, ~ John Milton

187:Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late. ~ John Milton

188:So little is our loss, So little is thy gain. ~ John Milton

189:The mind is its own place, and in it self Can ~ John Milton

190:The planets in their station list'ning stood. ~ John Milton

191:These are thy glorious works, Parent of good! ~ John Milton

192:Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold. ~ John Milton

193:إذا كنت تريد اختبار إخلاصك, فاختبر طاعتك أولا ~ John Milton

194:    To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad. ~ John Milton

195:And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons. ~ John Milton

196:Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find ~ John Milton

197:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n. ~ John Milton

198:Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n. ~ John Milton

199:Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more. ~ John Milton

200:Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk. ~ John Milton

201:In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, ~ John Milton

202:Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth. ~ John Milton

203:Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, ~ John Milton

204:Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. ~ John Milton

205:Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd ~ John Milton

206:And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung. ~ John Milton

207:Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. ~ John Milton

208:For what can war, but endless war, still breed? ~ John Milton

209:Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. ~ John Milton

210:Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn! ~ John Milton

211:He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses ~ John Milton

212:Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore. ~ John Milton

213:Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ~ John Milton

214:To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering. ~ John Milton

215:Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. ~ John Milton

216:For evil news rides post, while good news baits. ~ John Milton

217:Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. ~ John Milton

218:He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. ~ John Milton

219:Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought ~ John Milton

220:This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ~ John Milton

221:Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers. ~ John Milton

222:We live Law to ourselves. Our reason is our Law. ~ John Milton

223:لابد للطامح أن يهبط فى مهوى يوازى ارتفاع التحليق ~ John Milton

224:Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven. ~ John Milton

225:Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise ~ John Milton

226:Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. ~ John Milton

227:Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- ~ John Milton

228:Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do. ~ John Milton

229:Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words. ~ John Milton

230:Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. ~ John Milton

231:Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms. ~ John Milton

232:Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore. ~ John Milton

233:Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, ~ John Milton

234:No war or battle sound Was heard the world around. ~ John Milton

235:Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, ~ John Milton

236:What is strength without a double share of wisdom? ~ John Milton

237:His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred. ~ John Milton

238:Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. ~ John Milton

239:The best apology against false accusers is silence. ~ John Milton

240:but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself ~ John Milton

241:Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound. ~ John Milton

242:Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. ~ John Milton

243:Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. ~ John Milton

244:But what will not ambition and revenge Descend to? ~ John Milton

245:For so I created them free and free they must remain. ~ John Milton

246:No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. ~ John Milton

247:Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste. ~ John Milton

248:Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. ~ John Milton

249:There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. ~ John Milton

250:All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all. ~ John Milton

251:A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so. ~ John Milton

252:Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. ~ John Milton

253:Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books. ~ John Milton

254:The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day. ~ John Milton

255:True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. ~ John Milton

256:Мирът има своите не по-малко славни победи от войната. ~ John Milton

257:In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora. ~ John Milton

258:The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst. ~ John Milton

259:Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. ~ John Milton

260:Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. ~ John Milton

261:who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. ~ John Milton

262:Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. ~ John Milton

263:Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. ~ John Milton

264:Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. ~ John Milton

265:The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ~ John Milton

266:The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint. ~ John Milton

267:Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme ~ John Milton

268:A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. ~ John Milton

269:... but to create Is greater than created to destroy. ~ John Milton

270:Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. ~ John Milton

271:My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape. ~ John Milton

272:Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all. ~ John Milton

273:Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half ~ John Milton

274:The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. ~ John Milton

275:... and miserable it is to be to others cause of misery... ~ John Milton

276:Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach. ~ John Milton

277:Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. ~ John Milton

278:For what can war but endless war still breed?" - Sonnet 15 ~ John Milton

279:Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation. ~ John Milton

280:What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality. ~ John Milton

281:Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. ~ John Milton

282:Кто сам нетерпеливо ищет испытания, - уже начинает падать. ~ John Milton

283:A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit"― ~ John Milton

284:Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being. ~ John Milton

285:Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence. ~ John Milton

286:O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes! ~ John Milton

287:Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. ~ John Milton

288:Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find? ~ John Milton

289:Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. ~ John Milton

290:Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor. ~ John Milton

291:His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. ~ John Milton

292:Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements. ~ John Milton

293:Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. ~ John Milton

294:Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. ~ John Milton

295:Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,..... ~ John Milton

296:Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. ~ John Milton

297:Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. ~ John Milton

298:Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. ~ John Milton

299:Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. ~ John Milton

300:Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. ~ John Milton

301:Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light. ~ John Milton

302:O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined? ~ John Milton

303:But O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave. ~ John Milton

304:high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently ~ John Milton

305:Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion. ~ John Milton

306:Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize. ~ John Milton

307:Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate. ~ John Milton

308:Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. ~ John Milton

309:With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. ~ John Milton

310:Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth. ~ John Milton

311:Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. ~ John Milton

312:Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round ~ John Milton

313:God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive. ~ John Milton

314:Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave. ~ John Milton

315:Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries. ~ John Milton

316:My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight! ~ John Milton

317:Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements. ~ John Milton

318:Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. ~ John Milton

319:The wary fiend stood on the brink of hell, pondering his voyage ~ John Milton

320:With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. ~ John Milton

321:And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. ~ John Milton

322:To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. ~ John Milton

323:And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. ~ John Milton

324:At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come. ~ John Milton

325:It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them. ~ John Milton

326:Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain. ~ John Milton

327:Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness. ~ John Milton

328:In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God. ~ John Milton

329:What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste? ~ John Milton

330:Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? ~ John Milton

331:Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel. ~ John Milton

332:Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. ~ John Milton

333:Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate. ~ John Milton

334:Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook. ~ John Milton

335:In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. ~ John Milton

336:Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven. ~ John Milton

337:Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food. ~ John Milton

338:Socrates... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men. ~ John Milton

339:Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow. ~ John Milton

340:They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. ~ John Milton

341:Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? ~ John Milton

342:Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war. ~ John Milton

343:Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. ~ John Milton

344:The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents. ~ John Milton

345:To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom. ~ John Milton

346:Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail. ~ John Milton

347:Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. ~ John Milton

348:The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. ~ John Milton

349:العدل يقضى أن من يهزم خصمه فى ساحة الحق ينبغى أن يهزمه فى ساحة القتال ~ John Milton

350:A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. ~ John Milton

351:He also went invisible, yet stayed (such privilege hath omnipresence). ~ John Milton

352:Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can. ~ John Milton

353:Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. ~ John Milton

354:Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles. ~ John Milton

355:We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. ~ John Milton

356:Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. ~ John Milton

357:Firm they might have stood, yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress. ~ John Milton

358:Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. ~ John Milton

359:Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. ~ John Milton

360:The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ~ John Milton

361:The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty. ~ John Milton

362:They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. ~ John Milton

363:Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail. ~ John Milton

364:It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel. ~ John Milton

365:See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing. ~ John Milton

366:Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! ~ John Milton

367:Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. ~ John Milton

368:  Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a World   Of destind habitation; but ~ John Milton

369:And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure. ~ John Milton

370:And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. ~ John Milton

371:Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse. ~ John Milton

372:I made him just and right, sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. ~ John Milton

373:They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness. ~ John Milton

374:Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. ~ John Milton

375:Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. ~ John Milton

376:Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. ~ John Milton

377:Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies. ~ John Milton

378:Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. ~ John Milton

379:Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east. ~ John Milton

380:On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves. ~ John Milton

381:So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap. ~ John Milton

382:Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless? ~ John Milton

383:A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. ~ John Milton

384:In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause. ~ John Milton

385:Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness. ~ John Milton

386:And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. ~ John Milton

387:Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd. ~ John Milton

388:Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself. ~ John Milton

389:Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak. ~ John Milton

390:Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place. ~ John Milton

391:Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. ~ John Milton

392:What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? ~ John Milton

393:And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. ~ John Milton

394:For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. ~ John Milton

395:For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew? ~ John Milton

396:Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost,

397:Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. ~ John Milton

398:You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind. ~ John Milton

399:Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day. ~ John Milton

400:Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light. ~ John Milton

401:So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. ~ John Milton

402:Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom... ~ John Milton

403:To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood. ~ John Milton

404:United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise. ~ John Milton

405:Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night? ~ John Milton

406:Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers? ~ John Milton

407:And on their naked limbs the flowry roof/Show'r'd Rose, which the Morn repair'd. ~ John Milton

408:But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee Came not all hell broke loose? ~ John Milton

409:For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise. ~ John Milton

410:Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. ~ John Milton

411:Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless? ~ John Milton

412:And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained? ~ John Milton

413:And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? ~ John Milton

414:Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love. ~ John Milton

415:See with what heat these Dogs of Hell advance To waste and havoc yonder World. ~ John Milton

416:The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness. ~ John Milton

417:The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill. ~ John Milton

418:What reinforcement we may gain from hope, If not what resolution from despair. ~ John Milton

419:And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. ~ John Milton

420:Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? ~ John Milton

421:He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame? ~ John Milton

422:Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not. ~ John Milton

423:So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey. ~ John Milton

424:So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he. ~ John Milton

425:The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world. ~ John Milton

426:To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. ~ John Milton

427:And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ~ John Milton

428:And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. ~ John Milton

429:His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid. ~ John Milton

430:Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. ~ John Milton

431:The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. ~ John Milton

432:But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return! ~ John Milton

433:Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn. ~ John Milton

434:Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving. ~ John Milton

435:I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death. ~ John Milton

436:Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. ~ John Milton

437:The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. ~ John Milton

438:The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. ~ John Milton

439:Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow. ~ John Milton

440:A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd. ~ John Milton

441:Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep... ~ John Milton

442:None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. ~ John Milton

443:Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. ~ John Milton

444:The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids. ~ John Milton

445: That who advances his glory, not their own,   Them he himself to glory will advance. ~ John Milton

446:But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience. ~ John Milton

447:Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky. ~ John Milton

448:Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world. ~ John Milton

449:If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble. ~ John Milton

450:O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. ~ John Milton

451:So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life. ~ John Milton

452:The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. ~ John Milton

453:The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n. ~ John Milton

454:Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled. ~ John Milton

455:Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. ~ John Milton

456:Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. ~ John Milton

457:Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence. ~ John Milton

458:Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. ~ John Milton

459:Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle. ~ John Milton

460:He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day. ~ John Milton

461:Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane. ~ John Milton

462:No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. ~ John Milton

463:One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. ~ John Milton

464:The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. ~ John Milton

465:The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals. ~ John Milton

466:Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread. ~ John Milton

467:What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?. ~ John Milton

468:With thee conversing I forget all time, all seasons and their change, all please alike. ~ John Milton

469:A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd. ~ John Milton

470:But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. ~ John Milton

471:Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. ~ John Milton

472:He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ~ John Milton

473:So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life. ~ John Milton

474:The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. ~ John Milton

475:And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. ~ John Milton

476:Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring. ~ John Milton

477:Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won. ~ John Milton

478:He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. ~ John Milton

479:If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself. ~ John Milton

480:It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark. ~ John Milton

481:License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good. ~ John Milton

482:O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings. ~ John Milton

483:The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. ~ John Milton

484:To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n. ~ John Milton

485:With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears. ~ John Milton

486:Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair. ~ John Milton

487:Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost. ~ John Milton

488:No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. ~ John Milton

489:That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge. ~ John Milton

490:The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose. ~ John Milton

491:The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him. ~ John Milton

492:The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength. ~ John Milton

493:And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. ~ John Milton

494:A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night. ~ John Milton

495:Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. ~ John Milton

496:Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight ~ John Milton

497:Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself. ~ John Milton, Paradise Regained (1671), Book IV, line 327.

498:Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all. ~ John Milton

499:Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest. ~ John Milton

500:These are thy glorious works, Parent of good. ~ John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book V, line 153

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