# Quote — John Milton, Paradise Lost

> Thus with the year
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> Seasons return; but not to me returns
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> Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,
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> Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,
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> Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;
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> But cloud instead, and ever-during dark
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> Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men
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> Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair
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> Presented with a universal blank
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> Of Nature's works to me expunged and razed,
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> And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

- 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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