John Milton Quotes
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Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
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Attic tragedies of stateliest and most regal argument.
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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
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Evil on itself shall back recoil.
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
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But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
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Inflamed 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.
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Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.
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Methought I saw my late espousèd saintBrought to me like Alcestis from the grave.
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
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And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream.
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O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
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What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse...
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds; The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
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The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.
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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.