John Milton Quotes
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Faithful found among the faithless.
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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine.
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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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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.
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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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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
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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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Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.
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I walk unseenOn the dry smooth-shaven green,To behold the wandering moon,Riding near her highest noon,Like one that had been led astrayThrough the heav'n's wide pathless way,And oft, as if her head she bowed,Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
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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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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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Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
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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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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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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.
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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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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
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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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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.