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Evil Quotes by John Milton
- For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
- For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost…
- And out of good still to find means of evil.
- 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.
- What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all…
- Evil on itself shall back recoil.
- O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
- So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
- That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate,…
- But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.
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