John Milton Quotes
-
What is dark within me, illumine.
-
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
-
Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
-
Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
-
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?
-
Antichrist is Mammon's son.
-
Ladies, whose bright eyesRain influence, and judge the prize.
-
They also serve who only stand and wait.
-
Our reason is our law.
-
In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.
-
Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.
-
O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
-
The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
-
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.
-
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
-
It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.
-
Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.
-
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
-
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?
-
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.
-
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
-
Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?
-
Evil, be thou my good.
-
Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,And Laughter, holding both his sides.Come, and trip it, as you go.On the light fantastic toe.