John Milton Quotes
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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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Temper justice with mercy.
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Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
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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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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
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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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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
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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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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
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Our reason is our law.
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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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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
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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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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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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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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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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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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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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?