John Milton Quotes
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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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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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And storied windows richly dight,Casting a dim religious light.There let the pealing organ blow,To the full-voiced choir below,In service high, and anthems clearAs may, with sweetness, through mine earDissolve me into ecstasies,And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
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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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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
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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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He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.