John Milton

(16 votes)   True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

John Milton
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(312 votes)   'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity, no savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer will dare to soil her virgin purity.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(311 votes)   Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

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1608-1674, British Poet

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(297 votes)   Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

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1608-1674, British Poet

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(294 votes)   These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

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1608-1674, British Poet

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(272 votes)   For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

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1608-1674, British Poet

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(247 votes)   Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.

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(244 votes)   Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

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(240 votes)   Lords are lordliest in their wine.

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(161 votes)   Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

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(153 votes)   A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.

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(153 votes)   Reason also is choice.

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(140 votes)   Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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(135 votes)   Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

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(130 votes)   Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

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