John Milton Quotes
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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...
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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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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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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
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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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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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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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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
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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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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
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God shall be all in all.
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Such joy ambition finds.
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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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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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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
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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 sentence is for open war.