John Milton Quotes
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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
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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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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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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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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
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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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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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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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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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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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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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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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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.
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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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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.