# John Milton

- Quotes: 235
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton

## Books

- [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md) — 237 quotes

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> So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd
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> His nostril wide into the murky air,
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> Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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> Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
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> In every gesture dignity and love.

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> To know
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> That which before us lies in daily life
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> Is the prime wisdom.

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> For now I see
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> Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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> Go in thy native innocence, rely
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> On what thou hast of virtue; summon all!
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> For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

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> The angel ended, and in Adam's ear
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> So charming left his voice that he awhile
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> Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear.

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> A pillar'd shade
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> High overarch'd, and echoing walks between.

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> So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop
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> Into thy mother's lap.

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> In me is no delay; with thee to go,
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> Is to stay here; without thee here to stay,
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> Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me
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> Art all things under heaven, all places thou,
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> Who for my willful crime art banished hence.

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> Thus it shall befall
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> Him who, to worth in women overtrusting,
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> Lets her will rule; restraint she will not brook,
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> And, left to herself, if evil thence ensue,
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> She first his weak indulgence will accuse.

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> There swift return
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> Diurnal, merely to officiate light
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> Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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> I feel
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> The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh,
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> Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
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> Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

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