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Paradise Lost quotes

John Milton

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“All is not lost—the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Their rising all at once was as the sound of thunder heard remote.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven: and now prepare thee for another sight.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“So little knows any, but God alone, to value right the good before him, but perverts best things to worst abuse, or to their meanest use.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear; farewell, remorse!” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed alone, without exteriour help sustained?” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Confirmed then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe: so dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Among unequals what society can sort, what harmony, or true delight?” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, safest and seemliest by her husband stays, who guards her, or with her the worst endures.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“To attain the highth and depth of thy eternal ways all human thoughts come short, Supreme of things!” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion, but to human ears cannot without process of speech be told, so told as earthly notion can receive.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew desire with thee still longer to converse induced me.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Yet, with a pleasing sorcery, could charm pain for a while or anguish, and excite fallacious hope, or arm th' obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee? whom follow?” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Let none admire that riches grow in Hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Shalt thou give law to God? shalt thou dispute with him the points of liberty, who made thee what thou art, and formed the Powers of Heaven such as he pleased, and circumscribed their being?” John Milton, Paradise Lost

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