John Milton Quotes
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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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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.
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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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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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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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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
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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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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.
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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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Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
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Our reason is our law.
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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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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
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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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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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Dark with excessive bright.
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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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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.