John Milton Quotes
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From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.
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Hence, loathèd Melancholy,Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born,In Stygian cave forlorn,'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.
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All hell broke loose.
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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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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
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Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
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Peor and BaälimForsake their temples dim.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
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His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
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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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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
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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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Nor think thou with wind Of æry threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not.
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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
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For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
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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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Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
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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.