John Milton Quotes
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I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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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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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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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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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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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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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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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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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
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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 liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
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From haunted spring and daleEdged with poplar paleThe parting genius is with sighing sent.
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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.
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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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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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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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Dark with excessive bright.
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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.