John Milton Quotes
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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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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Till old experience do attainTo something like prophetic strain.
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
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It was that fatal and perfidious bark,Built in th' eclipse, and rigged with curses dark,That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.
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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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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
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Antichrist is Mammon's son.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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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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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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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.
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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?
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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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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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Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.