John Milton Quotes
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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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But, O sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.
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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?
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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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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 cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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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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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
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Solitude is sometimes best society.
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal BenchOf British Themis, with no mean applausePronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,Which others at their Bar so often wrench
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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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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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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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Our reason is our law.
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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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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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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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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.