John Milton Quotes

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Faithful found among the faithless.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.

Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

My sentence is for open war.

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found; Among the faithless, faithful only he.

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

All hell broke loose.

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Such joy ambition finds.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.