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 "Echoes of Virtue and Vice: Reflections from Paradise Lost"

This collection of quotes from John Milton's "Paradise Lost" explores themes of ambition, morality, and the human condition. The lines reflect on the complexity of good and evil, the power of choice, and the pursuit of virtue in the face of challenges, creating a profound introspective journey.

"The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

"What hath night to do with sleep?"

"Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light."

"For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."

"The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him."

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

"A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit."

"The mind is its own place."

"Confusion heard his voice."

"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven."

"Sufficient to stand."

"The world was all before them."

"Awake, arise, or be forever fall'n."

"So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs."

"Abashed the Devil stood."

"Silence was pleased."

"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree."

"Farewell, happy fields, where joy forever dwells!"

"Evil into the mind of God or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind."

"Reason is her being, Discursive or Intuitive."

"What in me is dark, illumine."

"What hath night to do with sleep?"

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep."

"All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield."

"So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear."

"For man will hearken to his glozing lies."

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

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

"To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell"

"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of Eternity."

"To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable."

"What in me is dark illumine, what is low raise and support."

"Reason is but choosing; it is but the slave's obeying."

"For man will hearken to his glozing lies."

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license."

"A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war."

"Sufficient to stand, though free to fall."

"The light which makes heaven visible."

"Farewell happy fields, where joy forever dwells."

"License they mean when they cry liberty."

"And out of good still to find means of evil."

"Hence, loathed Melancholy."

"So dear I loved the man that I must weep."

"Fit audience find, though few."

"The starry cope of heaven."

"As good almost kill a man as kill a good book."

"With grave Aspect he rose."

"Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed."

"The Almighty hath not built here for his envy, will not drive us hence."

"His red right hand."

"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."

"What strength had not Paradise regained."

"And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed alone, without exterior help sustained?"

"And feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce."

"And brought the dire propensity to worse."

"To reign is worth ambition, though in hell."

"Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world."

"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown."

"For who, as I, so confidently can affirm, they would stand?"

"What's more miserable than discontent?"

"Whose end is hell, whose reward eternal ignominy."

"Thy words with grace divine imbued bring to their sweetness no satiety."

"The virtue of man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct."

"He had none of the fierce qualities of the doctrinaire."

"To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering."

"And out of good still to find means of evil."

"Virtue could see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk."

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

"For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary."

"But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all."

"The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed."

"Though fallen on evil days, on evil days though fallen."

"He for God only, she for God in him."

"He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day."