John Milton Quotes
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
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Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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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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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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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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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.
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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
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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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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
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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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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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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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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.
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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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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.