Paradise Lost Book 9 Quotes
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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
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Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
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And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
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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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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.
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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
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So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.
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Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.
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Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
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Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss And mad'st it pregnant: What is in me dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the heighth of this great Argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.
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Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost
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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.
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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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