John Milton Quotes
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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.
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Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell,And devilish machinations come to nought.
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Peor and BaälimForsake their temples dim.
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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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He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
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Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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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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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.
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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
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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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Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire! Woods and groves are of thy dressing; Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
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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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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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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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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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The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.
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Forget thyself to marble.
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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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So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.