John Milton Quotes
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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
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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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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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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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In naked beauty most adorned.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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God shall be all in all.
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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Temper justice with mercy.
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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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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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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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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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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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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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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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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
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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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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.