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Rather Quotes by John Milton
- From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.…
- He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which…
- Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and…
- Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
- Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is…
- Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
- And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this…
- how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though…
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