John Milton Quotes
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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
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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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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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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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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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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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God shall be all in all.
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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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 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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Temper justice with mercy.
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.
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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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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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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.