John Milton Quotes
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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?
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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
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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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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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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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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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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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Solitude is sometimes best society.
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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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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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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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He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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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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Antichrist is Mammon's son.
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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.