John Milton Quotes
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And storied windows richly dight,Casting a dim religious light.There let the pealing organ blow,To the full-voiced choir below,In service high, and anthems clearAs may, with sweetness, through mine earDissolve me into ecstasies,And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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Solitude is sometimes best society.
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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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I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.
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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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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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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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Our reason is our law.
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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
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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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Such as may make thee search the coffers round.
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Dark with excessive bright.
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?
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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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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.