John Milton Quotes
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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?
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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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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
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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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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
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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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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!
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Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.
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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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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
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Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?
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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to holdA sheep-hook.
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That old man eloquent.
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.
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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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And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
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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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Herbs, and other country messes,Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
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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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God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.