John Milton Quotes
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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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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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Temper justice with mercy.
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I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.
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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.
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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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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
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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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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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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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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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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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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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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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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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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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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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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.