John Milton Quotes
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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.
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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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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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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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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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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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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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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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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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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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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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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
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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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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.