John Milton Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by John Milton
John Milton Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.
Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed,
And daffodillies fill their cups with tears,
To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.
And daffodillies fill their cups with tears,
To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.
Day and night,
Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
Behold now this vast city [London]; a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with His protection.
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy dread tribunal.
In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
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.
What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?
Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words
To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart;
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart;
Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?
So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.
...a dark
Illimitable ocean, without bound,
Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height,
And time, and place are lost;
Illimitable ocean, without bound,
Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height,
And time, and place are lost;
The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).
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?