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Him Quotes by John Milton
- The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a…
- Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
- The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge…
- For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: /…
- It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or…
- A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem
- Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with…
- Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous…
- Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them…
- Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
- Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.
- His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.
- The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
- A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
- Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
- The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
- The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
- Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!
- Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
- The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge…
- Whence true authority in men: though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and…
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden