Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
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'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
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Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.
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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.
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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
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The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs th' effect of fire. Thither by harpy-footed Furies hal'd, At certain revolutions all the damn'd Are brought, and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes,-extremes by change more fierce; From beds of raging fire to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infix'd, and frozen round, Periods of time; thence hurried back to fire.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.
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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.
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For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.
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Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
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The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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