John Milton Quotes
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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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God shall be all in all.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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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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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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Temper justice with mercy.
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
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To live a life half dead, a living death.
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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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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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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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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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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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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb...
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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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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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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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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.