John Milton Quotes
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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 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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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.
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The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Antichrist is Mammon's son.
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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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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
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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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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.