John Milton Quotes
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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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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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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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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
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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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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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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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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?
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Temper justice with mercy.
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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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Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.
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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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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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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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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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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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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.