John Milton Quotes
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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,Of Attic taste?
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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.
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Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.
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Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.
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And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
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Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
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Calm of mind, all passion spent.
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Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!
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For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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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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Peace hath her victoriesNo less renowned than war.
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By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.
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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.