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Them Quotes by John Milton
- Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in…
- But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
- It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.
- Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
- The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
- The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to…
- The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and…
- For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose…
- They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful…
- They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.
- For so I created them free and free they must remain.
- Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
- Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
- For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty…
- Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them
- Sweet Echo, sweetest Nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet imbroider'd vale Where the love-lorn…
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