John Milton Quotes
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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.
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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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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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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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Hide me from day's garish eye.
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God is decreeing to begin some newand great period in his Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to his servants, and as his manner is, first to his Englishmen?
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Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.