John Milton Quotes
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.
Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
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.
Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?
From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.
Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.
God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.
Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfet raigns.
Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!
Yet some there be that by due steps aspireTo lay their just hands on that golden keyThat opes the palace of Eternity.To such my errand is
Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope, /If not, what resolution from despair.
Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.
The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train." ~ John Milton Lawrence
I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.