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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He knewHimself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
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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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Such joy ambition finds.
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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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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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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.
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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of Heaven's joy,
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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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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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My sentence is for open war.
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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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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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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
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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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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.