Paradise Lost: Quotes from Book I

Of Man’s first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe.
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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 eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men.
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What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
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To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.
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The mind is its own place and in itself
can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n."
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
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Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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