John Milton Quotes
-
God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.
-
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.
-
And feel that I am happier than I know.
-
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.
-
The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
-
For so I created them free and free they must remain.
-
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.
-
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
-
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.
-
A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
-
Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
-
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
-
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?
-
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.
-
Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.
-
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
-
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse...