Paradise Lost - John Milton

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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 internal providence/ And justify the ways of God to men" I 22-26

• "A mind cannot be changed by place and time/ The mind is its own place and in itself/ can make a heavn'n of hell, a hell of heav'n." I 253-55

• "Awake, arise, or be forever fallen." I 330

• Here we may reign secure, and in my choice/ to reign is worth ambition, though in hell:/better to reign in Hell, than serve in heavn'n" I 261-263

• "To be weak is miserable." I 157

• "What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will/ and study of revenge, immortal hate/ and courage never to submit or yield." I 105-8

• "Long is the way/ and hard, that leads out of heavn' and into light." I 432-33

• "I made him just and right/ sufficient to have stood, though free to fall." III 98-99

• "So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear/ farewell remorse; all good to me is lost;/ evil, be thou my good." IV 108-10

• "Eased the putting off/ these troublesome disguises which we wear." IV 750-51

• "Freely we serve/ because we freely love, as in our will/ to love or not; in this we stand or fall." V 538-540

• "Grace was in all her steps, heav'n in her eye/ in every gesture dignity and love." VII 488-89

• "Her virtue and conscience of her worth/ that would be wooed and not unsought, be won." VII 502-3

• "Among the faithless, faithful only he." V 897

• "So dear I love him that with him all deaths/ I could endure, without him live no life." IX 832-33.