Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. ✨ John Mi…

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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. ✨ John Milton (2012). Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems, p.335, Modern Library
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Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse. ✨ John Milton (1831). Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, p.76
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy. ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 562
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses ✨ 1634 Comus … ▶
Such sober certainty of waking bliss. ✨ 'Comus' (1637) l. 263
A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd. ✨ 'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 55

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. ✨ John Milton (2012). Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems, p.335, Modern Library

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