John Milton Quotes
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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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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
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Evil, be thou my good.
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Antichrist is Mammon's son.
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What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
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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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Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
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Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
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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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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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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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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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Mirth, admit me of thy crew,To live with her, and live with thee,In unreprovèd pleasures free.
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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They also serve who only stand and wait.
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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.
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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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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.