John Milton Quotes
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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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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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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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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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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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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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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
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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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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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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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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.
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...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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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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Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?