John Milton Quotes
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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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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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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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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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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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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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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
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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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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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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,