John Milton Quotes
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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
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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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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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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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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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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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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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It was the winter wildWhile the Heav'n-born childAll meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
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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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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.