John Milton Quotes
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Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.
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Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
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Peor and BaälimForsake their temples dim.
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And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.
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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.
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But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.
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Forget thyself to marble.
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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
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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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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.
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Captain or Colonel, or Knight in Arms,Whose chance on these defenceless doors may seize,If ever deed of honour did thee please,Guard them, and him within protect from harms.
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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.
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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
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His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
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But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none!
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To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.