John Milton Quotes
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Have hungMy dank and dropping weedsTo the stern god of sea.
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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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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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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.
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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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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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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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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
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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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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.