John Milton Quotes
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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
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And every shepherd tells his taleUnder the hawthorn in the dale.
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I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
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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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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
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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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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
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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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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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Faithful found among the faithless.
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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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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.
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At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.
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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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Of which all Europe rings from side to side.
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Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
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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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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
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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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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
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Whether beyond the stormy Hebrides,Where thou perhaps under the whelming tideVisit'st the bottom of the monstrous world.
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So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.