John Milton Quotes
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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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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.
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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
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Temper justice with mercy.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.
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Antichrist is Mammon's son.
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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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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
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Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.
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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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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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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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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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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
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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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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
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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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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.