John Milton Quotes
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And join with thee, calm Peace and Quiet,Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
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The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.
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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.
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A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.
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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.
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Yet I argue notAgainst Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate one jotOf heart or hope; but still bear up, and steerRight onward.
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Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
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Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
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God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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Without the meed of some melodious tear.
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Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.
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No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.
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Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
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For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor;So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed;And yet anon repairs his drooping head,And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled oreFlames in the forehead of the morning sky.So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,Through the dear might of him that walked the waves.
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This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
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Where more is meant than meets the ear.
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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,Now thou art gone and never must return!
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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
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Execute their airy purposes.