John Milton Quotes

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

Evil on itself shall back recoil.

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Reason is also choice.

You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens take his pleasure.

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.

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?