John Milton Quotes
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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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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God shall be all in all.
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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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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
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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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Temper justice with mercy.
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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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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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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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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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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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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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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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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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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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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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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,