What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.


John Milton

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON
In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON
Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON
If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON
When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
JOHN MILTON
For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON
Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence ...
JOHN MILTON
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON