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“Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

Attributed to Milton at http://quotationsbook.com/quote/31964/#sthash.zAJjMqmY.dpbs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverence_(emotion)#Quotations, great-quotes.com, and brainyquote.com. <br class="br">Spirituality author Sarah Ban Breathnach writes, in her 1996 Simple Abundance Journal of Gratitude: "Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life (is it abundant or is it lacking?) and the world (is it friendly or is it hostile?)." A Milton quotation occurs on the same page. <br class="br">Misattributed

“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”

“Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“Still paying, still to owe.
Eternal woe!”

“So shall the world go on,
To good malignant, to bad men benign,
Under her own weight groaning.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“Then wilt thou not be loath
To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess
A Paradise within thee, happier far.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“Heaven is for thee too high
To know what passes there; be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee and thy being;
Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there
Live, in what state, condition, or degree,
Contented that thus far hath been revealed.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

Source: Paradise Lost

“Silence was pleased.”

“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”

John Milton Comus

Source: Comus

“What is strength without a double share of wisdom?”

“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler".”

“But oh! as to embrace me she inclined,
I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”

On His Deceased Wife (c. 1658)

“Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race:
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping Hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more than what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross.”

On Time (1633–34)

“I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.”

Tractate of Education (1644)

“From haunted spring and dale
Edged with poplar pale
The parting genius is with sighing sent.”

John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hymn, stanza 20, line 184
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

“Madam, methinks I see him living yet;
So well your words his noble virtues praise,
That all both judge you to relate them true,
And to possess them, honour'd Margaret.”

To the Lady Margaret Ley http://www.bartleby.com/106/85.html

“By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.”

The Reason of Church Government (1641), Book II, Introduction