John Milton Quotes
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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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No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.
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Till old experience do attainTo something like prophetic strain.
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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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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.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
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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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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
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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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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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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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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 great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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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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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.