Quotes on Paradise Lost Book 9

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

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,_x000D_ _x000D_ Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

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

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

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.