John Milton Quotes
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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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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
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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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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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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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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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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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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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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
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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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Till old experience do attainTo something like prophetic strain.
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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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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
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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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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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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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Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
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Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.