John Milton Quotes

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight

All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.

...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo worst abuse or to their meanest use.

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou art and formed the pow'rs of Heav'nSuch as He pleased and circumscribed their being?

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars—as starts to thee appearSoon in the galaxy, that milky wayWhich mightly as a circling zone thou seestPowder'd wiht stars.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.

th' unconquerable will, / And study of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the skies Til the dappled dawn doth rise.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.

Servant of God well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

Where no hope is left is left no fear.

Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.

Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.

Athens the eye of Greece mother of arts And eloquence.

A heaven on earth.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.

None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.

Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience above all other liberties.

So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure without him live no life.

The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

Servant of God well done.

So many laws argue so many sins.

Who overcomes By force hath overcome but half his foe.

Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.