John Milton Quotes
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What can escape the eye of God, all seeing, or deceive his heart, omniscient!
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom? Vast, unwieldy, burthensome, proudly secure, yet liable to fall by weakest subtleties; strength's not made to rule, but to subserve, where wisdom bears command.
[Strength]
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What is the people but a herd confused, a miscellaneous rabble, who extol things vulgar, and well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? they praise and they admire they know not what, and know not whom, but as one leads the other.
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
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When lust, by unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, but most by lewd and lavish acts of sin, lets in defilement to the inward parts, the soul grows clotted by contagion, embodies and imbrutes till she quite lose the divine property of her first being.
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Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
[Liberty]
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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
[Hearing]
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
[Fear]
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
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Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
[Force]
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Why need a man forestall his date of grief, and run to meet that he would most avoid?
[Anticipation]
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Zeal and duty are not slow; but on occasion's firelock watchful wait.
[Zeal]
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