John Milton Quotes
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God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
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And out of good still to find means of evil.
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With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.
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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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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.
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God shall be all in all.
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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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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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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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For so I created them free and free they must remain.
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And feel that I am happier than I know.
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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
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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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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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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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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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But oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return!
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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
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My sentence is for open war.
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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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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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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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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.