# Quote — John Milton, Paradise Lost

> A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog
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> Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old,
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> Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
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> Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire.
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> Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd,
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> At certain revolutions all the damn'd
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> Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change
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> Of fierce extremes,—extremes by change more fierce;
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> From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
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> Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
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> Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round,
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> Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.

- Author: [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md)
- Book: [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md)
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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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