John Milton Quotes
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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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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
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And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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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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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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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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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived since his time, but to whom he has never been revealed, should be saved by faith in God alone: still however, through the sole merits of Christ, inasmuch as he was given and slain from the beginning of the world, even for those to whom he was not known, provided they believed in God the Father.
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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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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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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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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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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.