John Milton Quotes
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As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.
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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.
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Ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and judge the prize.
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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
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They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.
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He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
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From haunted spring and daleEdged with poplar paleThe parting genius is with sighing sent.
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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
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Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.
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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .
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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!
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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
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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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O nightingale, that on yon bloomy sprayWarbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,And Laughter, holding both his sides.Come, and trip it, as you go.On the light fantastic toe.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.