There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution
JOHN MILTON
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A.E. HOUSMAN Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight
JOHN MILTON Sure there is, between Martin and John.
ALLISON JANNEY
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every c...
HAROLD BLOOM Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote ...
MATTHEW PEARL
ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKIN...
JOHN MILTON
He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize hi...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE [But her declarations weren't strong enough to convince some senators.] Gale Norton is no James Watt...
RON WYDEN There is no reason to justify the actions of the defendant.
GUSTI LANANG DAUH
There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.
WILLIAM BLAKE Truth never needs to justify itself.
GLENN CURTIS MADDOX John wanted to make sure the gnarly truth was told, as he put it, but at times he'd back away,
JAMES KEACH
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most...
JOHN STUART MILL ...[T]he three greatest works are those of JOSEPH DEVLIN To use the past to justify the present is bad enough—but it’s just as bad to use the present to ...
AMITAV GHOSH
If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinion...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves. For they will justify a...
H. N. ELLESSY There are no worse oppressors than those who have been oppressed themselves for they will justify al...
H.N.ELLESSY I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth. John 4
BIBLE There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
WARD CHURCHILL When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK There is no technology to shatter truth or master truth.
APURVA GAGLANI Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ...
PHILIP T. M. I'm sure that history will justify our choice.
SHIMON PERES
There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY There is no truth to that rumor.
SEN. ROOSEVELT DAVID
The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either w...
BERTRAND RUSSELL And fight with them until there is no persecution, and religion should be only for Allah, but if the...
QURAN
We must find enough confirmations in order to justify our beliefs
SUNDAY ADELAJA Sometimes holding on to something that you still believe in is reason enough to justify some pain.
MICHAEL HAYSSUS
There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY Peace is the only way one can justify her trust in making sure unity stands
BOAZ AKUDE We feel that, in Mozart's birthday year, the series is going to be popular enough to justify that.
NANCY LATURNO BOJANIC
There is no way I could refuse to do a cameo for Rohan and John.
PRIYANKA CHOPRA Beauty and usefulness alone were not enough to justify inclusion in this exhibition,
PAOLA ANTONELLI
John Kerry is right to say that this moment is a moment of truth, but that truth must include John K...
STEVE SCHMIDT
Milton's learned vocabulary [...] and his distant perspectives, represent the authoritative unintell...
JOHN BROADBENT
A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear
...
JOHN MILTON There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
KEN STARR
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can b...
LOUIS FARRAKHAN
If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no ...
SUZY KASSEM
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
IRVING BERLIN
There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that the...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about...
DAVID LEVITHAN
Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.
STEPHENIE MEYER
There is no such thing as truth.
ADOLPH HITLER
There is no god higher than truth.
MAHATMA GANDHI
All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN
Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI At this point, she is an untapped talent because there is no track record. No qualifying school, no ...
DOTTIE PEPPER
Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there...
THOMAS KEMPIS
Without the human my friend, truth has no value whatsoever. So, do not be blinded by the false glory...
ABHIJIT NASKAR There are things emotionally that Milton has to get a real firm grasp on.
JIM TRACY
You do not need the bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.
RICHARD A. WEATHERWAX
If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA Not only was there a John Doe No. 2,
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH Our first traditional stocking date has come and gone, and we didn't stock. There wasn't enough wate...
GREG SIMPSON We could only justify it if we were guaranteed Champions League football for the next three seasons....
RUDI ASSAUER
To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR
To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the na...
ALEXANDER POPE There is one sure way of telling when politicians aren't telling the truth - their lips move.
FELICITY KENDALL
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY There is never a need to justify anything to others, only yourself.
STEVEN REDHEAD
There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARD There is no truth whatever in these allegations.
GRAHAM SHEAR
If they're gonna get you, they wanna get you, ... And they use Machiavellian technique. The ends jus...
JOHN GOTTI I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them th...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG
No cause can justify such acts of terror,
KOFI ANNAN Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.
TIM CROUCH
There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.
DREW CAREY With No Truth, there's No Trust, with No Trust there is No Justifying your sins!
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE Truth is, no matter how many people you have around you now, you'll sure die al0ne in the end.
MITTA XININDLU No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a...
MATTHEW PEARL
Thou at the sight
Pleased, out of Heaven shalt look down and smile,
While by thee raised I...
JOHN MILTON
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's p...
PHILIP PULLMAN
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
there is no such thing as a harmless truth.
GREGORY NUNN
There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB
Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevai...
RICHARD RORTY
Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevai...
WALTER BAGEHOT
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
ANNE BRONTë And ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you free. -John VII.
JOHN VII
Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 God's own work must be done by God's own ways...
THOMAS FULLER
It would be a very big mistake to think John Spencer - no offense to John, who I guess was a decent ...
ED ROLLINS
We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.
M.F. MOONZAJER
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
KATHLEEN NORRIS
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
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Indu'd
With sanctity of reason.
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Subdue
By force, who reason for their law refuse,
Right reason for their law.
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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue
Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear
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By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
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Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
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Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear u...
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To them by faith imputed they may find
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O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
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If this fail,
The pillar'd firmament is rottenness,
And earth's base built on stubble.
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Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; ...
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And at another to let in the foe?
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who
could not hear the music.
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Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
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Come and trip it as ye go,
On the light fantastic toe.
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Come, knit hands, and beat the ground
In a light fantastic round.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
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What hath night to do with sleep?
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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License they mean when they cry liberty.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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With thee conversing I forget all time.
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Of wisdom, ...
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L...
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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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As I pace the deck alone,
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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
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Tears such as angels weep.
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O...
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin
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In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.
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M...
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. . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
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He seemed
For dignity compos'd and high exploit:
But all was false and hollow.
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Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
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Thus I set my printless feet
O'er the cowslip's velvet head,
That bends not as I tread.
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Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
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In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat o...
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But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-w...
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While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the bar...
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So when the sun in bed,
Curtain'd with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
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Turn forth her silver lining on the night,
And casts a gleam over thi...
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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
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Of wedde...
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The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
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A short retirement urges a sweet return.
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E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
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From morn
To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,
A summer's day; and with the setting sun
...
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Without all hope of ...
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Dungeon, o...
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.
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To man, the greater to have rule by day,
Th...
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Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
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Among the faithless faithful only he.
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(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
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That golden key
That opes the palace of eternity.
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All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense, and as they please
...
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Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,
And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
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But zeal moved thee;
To please thy gods thou didst it!
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But his zeal
None seconded, as out of season judged,
Or singular and rash.
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More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man,
God's ...
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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit
That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till a...
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Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
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Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still;
Thou wi...
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!
Thee, chauntress, o...
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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
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Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence
With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is ac...
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And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
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Adam, well may we labour, still to dress
This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
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Thus repuls'd, our final hope
Is flat despair.
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Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, crowns...
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Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
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Fled not in silence through the frighted deep
With ruin upon ruin, ro...
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The low'ring element
Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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These eyes, tho' clear
To outward view of blemish or of spot,
Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
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Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
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With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse
Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,
Yet gives not o...
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The palpable obscure.
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The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasures.
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meander's mar...
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Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
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Under the sooty flag of Acheron,
Harpies and Hydras.
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For spirits when they please
Can either sex assume, or both.
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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still
air of delightful studies.
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Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
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Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
. . . .
And boldly venture to whatever plac...
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Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.
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For I no sooner in my heart divin'd
My heart, which by a secret harmony
Still moves with thine...
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Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Without his rod revers'd,
And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
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So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
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What murderer, what traitor, parricide,
Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd
Firm concord holds, men only disagree
Of creatures ...
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Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher ...
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Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.
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In her face excuse
Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
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Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON
When thou attended gloriously from heaven,
Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send
Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON
Nor jealousy
Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
JOHN MILTON
For never can true reconcilement grow,
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON
Yet from those flames
No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON
Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad:
Silence ...
JOHN MILTON
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON