John Milton Quotes
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The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.
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Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.
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With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.
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Under the shady roofOf branching elm star-proof.
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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
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That old man eloquent.
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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.
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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
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Herbs, and other country messes,Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
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Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen, May trace huge forests, and unharbour'd heaths, Infamous hills, and sandy perilous wilds; Where, through the sacred rays of chastity, No savage fierce, bandite, or mountaineer, Will dare to soil her virgin purity.
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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?