Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

by John Milton

• "To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
  Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
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• "For who can yet believe, though after loss,
  That all these puissant legions, whose exile
  Hath emptied Heaven, shall fail to re-ascend,
  Self-raised, and repossess their native seat?"
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• "[He] who overcomes
  By force hath overcome but half his foe."
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• "Thus repulsed, our final hope
  Is flat despair: we must exasperate
  Th' Almighty Victor to spend all his rage;
  And that must end us; that must be our cure--
  To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose,
  Though full of pain, this intellectual being,
  Those thoughts that wander through eternity,
  To perish rather, swallowed up and lost
  In the wide womb of uncreated Night,
  Devoid of sense and motion?"
  • Source: Project Gutenberg