John Milton Quotes
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From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.
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For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life.
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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!
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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
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Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves.
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When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless.
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Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.
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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!
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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
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His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
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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.
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If all the world Should in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.
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O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.
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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.
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Every cloud has a silver lining.
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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.
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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
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Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom,Far from all resort of mirth,Save the cricket on the hearth.