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The best apology against false accusers is silence.

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

John Milton
Apology, Silence, Accusers
John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.97

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

John Milton
Sleep, Silence, Midnight
John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.157

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

John Milton
Air, Silence, Chamber
'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 16

Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

John Milton
Sleep, Silence, Pace
John Milton, John Richardson Major (1853). “Milton's Paradise Lost, with notes, critical and explanatory, original and selected, by J. R. Major”, p.373

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

John Milton
Twilight, Bird, Silence
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

John Milton
Perseverance, Giving, Silence
John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.65, BookCaps Study Guides

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