John Milton Quotes
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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.
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What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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Solitude is sometimes best society.
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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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Our reason is our 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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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,And Laughter, holding both his sides.Come, and trip it, as you go.On the light fantastic toe.
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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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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
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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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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.