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“Where the bright seraphim in burning row
Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.”

At a Solemn Music
Source: The Complete Poetry

“Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”

Source: Paradise Lost

“From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.”

Source: Paradise Lost

“Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!”

Source: Paradise Lost

“Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.”

Attributed to Auguste Rodin in: Leonard William Doob (1990). Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection. p. 124
Source: On His Blindness (1652)

“They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.”

Apology for Smectymnuus (1642), section VIII
Source: An apology for Smectymnuus with the reason of church-government by John Milton ...
Context: So little care they of beasts to make them men, that by their sorcerous doctrine of formalities, they take the way to transform them out of Christian men into judaizing beasts. Had they but taught the land, or suffered it to be taught, as Christ would it should have been in all plenteous dispensation of the word, then the poor mechanic might have so accustomed his ear to good teaching, as to have discerned between faithful teachers and false. But now, with a most inhuman cruelty, they who have put out the people’s eyes, reproach them of their blindness; just as the Pharisees their true fathers were wont, who could not endure that the people should be thought competent judges of Christ’s doctrine, although we know they judged far better than those great rabbis: yet “this people,” said they, “that know not the law is accursed.”