John Milton Quotes
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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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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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It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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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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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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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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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude,And with forced fingers rudeShatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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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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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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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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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.