John Milton Quotes
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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.
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Ornate rhetoric thought out of the rule of Plato... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less subtle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.
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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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Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.
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He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
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Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.
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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme...
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But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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Antichrist is Mammon's son.
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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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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By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.