John Milton Quotes
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
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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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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
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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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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
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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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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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God shall be all in all.
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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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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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My sentence is for open war.
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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
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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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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.