John Milton Quotes
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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
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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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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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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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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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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
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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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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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But oh! as to embrace me she inclined,I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
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The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.
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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.
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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.