John Milton quote about love from Paradise Lost - what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed alone, without exteriour help sustained?
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what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed alone, without exteriour help sustained?
 John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667). copy citation

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Author John Milton
Source Paradise Lost
Topic love virtue help
Date 1667
Language English
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“Sticks no dishonour on our front, but turns Foul on himself; then wherefore shunned or feared By us? who rather double honour gain
From his surmise proved false; find peace within, Favour from Heaven, our witness, from the event. And what is faith, love, virtue, unassayed Alone, without exteriour help sustained? Let us not then suspect our happy state Left so imperfect by the Maker wise, As not secure to single or combined. Frail is our happiness, if this be so, And Eden were no Eden, thus exposed. To whom thus Adam fervently replied.” source

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