John Milton Quotes
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
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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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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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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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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
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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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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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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
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Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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Dark with excessive bright.
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Antichrist is Mammon's son.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
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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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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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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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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
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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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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.