John Milton Quotes
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
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Solitude is sometimes best society.
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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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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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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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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
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When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
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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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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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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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But oh! as to embrace me she inclined,I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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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.