John Milton Quotes
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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
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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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Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom,Far from all resort of mirth,Save the cricket on the hearth.
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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?
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Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.
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Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.
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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.
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Oft, on a plat of rising ground,I hear the far-off curfew soundOver some wide-watered shore,Swinging low with sullen roar.
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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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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
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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.
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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.
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No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.
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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
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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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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
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For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains,And disapproves that care, though wise in show,That with superfluous burden loads the day,And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
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Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.