John Milton Quotes
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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.
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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
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He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
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Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.
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Dark with excessive bright.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.
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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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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
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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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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.