John Milton Quotes
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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
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His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
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Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.
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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.
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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 end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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Antichrist is Mammon's son.
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Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
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Temper justice with mercy.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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And every shepherd tells his taleUnder the hawthorn in the dale.
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And 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.
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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
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Our country is where ever we are well off.
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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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Awake, arise or be for ever fall in.
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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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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.
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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.
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From haunted spring and daleEdged with poplar paleThe parting genius is with sighing sent.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.