John Milton Quotes
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
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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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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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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
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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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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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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
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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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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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Such joy ambition finds.
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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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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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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God shall be all in all.
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.