Quotes on Paradise Lost Book 1

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.

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. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

And out of good still to find means of evil.

Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice_x000D_ _x000D_ To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:_x000D_ _x000D_ Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope;_x000D_ _x000D_ If not, what resolution from despair.

Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

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