John Milton Quotes
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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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But oh! as to embrace me she inclined,I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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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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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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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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Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.
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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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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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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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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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God shall be all in all.
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.