# Quote — John Milton, Paradise Lost

> Into this wilde Abyss,
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> The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
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> Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
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> But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
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> Confus'dly, and which thus must ever fight,
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> Unless th' Almighty Maker them ordain
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> His dark materials to create more Worlds,
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> Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend
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> Stood on the brink of Hell and look'd a while,
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> Pondering his Voyage.

- 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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