John Milton Quotes
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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.
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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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New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.
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What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,Of Attic taste?
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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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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
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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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Solitude sometimes is best society.
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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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Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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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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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
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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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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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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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Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?
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So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
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My rising is thy fall
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Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
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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?