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Letter "J" » John Milton Quotes
«My sentence is for open war; of wiles, / More unexpert, I boast not.»
«To bottomless perdition, there to dwell / In adamantine chains and penal fire.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
adamantine, bottomless, chains, dwell, penal, perdition
«Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.»
«Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.»
«Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Death and dying,
Misery,
Sin,
World
| Keywords:
harbinger, woe
«Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Fame
| Keywords:
laborious, noble-minded, spur
«Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail / Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,/ Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair,/ And what may quiet us in a death so noble.»
«To be weak is miserable / Doing or suffering.»
«And feel that I am happier than I know.»
«Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.»
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