John Milton Quotes
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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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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?
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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.
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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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Solitude is sometimes best society.
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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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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
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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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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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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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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
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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.