"Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained" Quotes
The epic poem that recounts Satan's fall from Heaven, the temptation of Adam and Eve, and their eventual redemption.
classics | 400 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!
Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
Farewell, happy fields, where joy forever dwells!
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
For who would lose, though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that wander through eternity?
If thou beest he; But O how fall'n! how changed from him, Who in the happy realms of light clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright!
I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Evil be thou my good.
What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield.
