John Milton Quotes
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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.
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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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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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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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Hide me from day's garish eye.
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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
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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.