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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is about Adam and Eve--how they came to be created and how they came to lose their place in the Garden of Eden, also called Paradise. It's the same story you find in the first pages of Genesis, expanded by Milton into a very long, detailed,

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“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”

— John Milton, poets.org

Tagged: Heaven and Hell, human minds, Attitude, Your Perspective On Things, Perspective

“In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not: Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Loving, Passion, True Love, Thoughts

“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, Farewell, Remorse

“Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Mankind, Condemnation, Guilt

“Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Unity, Flesh, state, Love

“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Free, Freedom, Creation

“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Miserable, Despair, Hell, Heaven

“Freely we serve Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Service, Love, Will, Freedom

“Solitude sometimes is best society.”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Solitude, Society, Privacy

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”

— John Milton, amazon.com

Tagged: Mind, Place, Solitude, Heaven, Hell