John Milton Quotes
-
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
-
Calm of mind, all passion spent.
-
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
-
Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
-
Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.
-
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?
-
Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
-
Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
-
Tears such as angels weep.
-
The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.
-
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
-
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
-
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
-
The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.
-
Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
-
Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.
-
Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race:Call on the lazy leaden-stepping Hours,Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,Which is no more than what is false and vain,And merely mortal dross.
-
And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.
-
Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
-
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
-
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
-
Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds,--/ Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.
-
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
-
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.