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«Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.»
«And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
afflicted, assembling, consult, henceforth, offend
«Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!»
«For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.»
«Reason also is choice.»
«Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.»
«What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
abstain, baits, continence, distinguish, seeming
«Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.»
«Fear of change perplexes monarchs.»
«Lords are lordliest in their wine.»
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