John Milton Quotes
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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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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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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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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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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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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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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.
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He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
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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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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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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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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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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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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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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
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Is it just or reasonable, that most voices against the main end of government should enslave the less number that would be free? more just it is, doubtless, if it come to force, that a less number compel a greater to retain, which can be no wrong to them, their liberty, than that a greater number, for the pleasure of their baseness, compel a less most injuriously to be their fellow-slaves. They who seek nothing but their own just liberty, have always right to win it and to keep it, whenever they have power, be the voices never so numerous that oppose it.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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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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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.