John Milton Quotes
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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,And Laughter, holding both his sides.Come, and trip it, as you go.On the light fantastic toe.
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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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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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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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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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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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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
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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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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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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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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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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal BenchOf British Themis, with no mean applausePronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,Which others at their Bar so often wrench
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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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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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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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.