John Milton Quotes
-
Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
-
Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.
-
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
-
Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.
-
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
-
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
-
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
-
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
-
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
-
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
-
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.
-
Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.
-
From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
-
License they mean when they cry, Liberty!For who loves that must first be wise and good.
-
That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
-
Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
-
Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
-
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.
-
Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.
-
Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
-
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
-
Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.
-
No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.
-
A bevy of fair women.