John Milton Quotes & John Milton Sayings

"Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine, and be not diffident Of wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thou Dismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh, By attributing overmuch to things Less excellent, as thou thyself perceivest." John Milton Adages "Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven." John Milton ...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton Quotations A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond John Milton A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. John Milton A heav'n on earth. John Milton Quotes A little onward lend thy guiding hand / To these dark steps, a little further on. John Milton Sayings A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or The Assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. John Milton Sayings A short retirement urges a sweet return John Milton A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses John Milton Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely John Milton Quotes Abashed the devil stood, / And felt how awful goodness is. John Milton And feel that I am happier than I know. John Milton Sayings And when they list, their lean and flashy songs / Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw, / The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, / But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, / Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread. John Milton Popular Quotes Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts / And eloquence. John Milton Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate. John Milton But that two-handed engine at the door, / Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. John Milton Quotes Captain, or colonel, or knight in arms. John Milton Come, knit hands, and beat the ground, / in a light fantastic round. John Milton Remarks Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor John Milton Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, / What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? John Milton Remarks Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. John Milton Quotes Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy, / And moon-struck madness. John Milton Remarks Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars / White, black, and grey, with all their trumpery. John Milton Evil news rides post, while good news bates John Milton Adages 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. John Milton Remarks Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. John Milton Remarks Farewell happy fields / Where joy for ever dwells: Hail horrors, hail! John Milton Quotations Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. John Milton For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. John Milton For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return John Milton Popular Quotes For who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, / Those thoughts that wander through eternity, / To perish rather, swallowed up and lost / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense and motion? John Milton Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties John Milton Quotes Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. John Milton Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death. John Milton Quotations Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles John Milton Remarks He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' The Centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton Quotations He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. John Milton Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven John Milton Sayings 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 surfeit reigns John Milton How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbèd, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. John Milton How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! John Milton Remarks I am a part of all that I have met John Milton If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all John Milton If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectfy manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man. John Milton Adages Implied / Subjection, but required with gentle sway / And by her yielded, by him best received; / Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, / And sweet reluctant amorous delay. John Milton In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth John Milton Quotations Last came, and last did go, / The Pilot of the Galilean lake, / Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain, / (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain). John Milton Sayings Laws can discover sin, but not remove it John Milton Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. John Milton Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep John Milton Adages Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. John Milton Adages My race of glory run, and race of shame, / And I shall shortly be with them that rest. John Milton Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty. John Milton Popular Quotes 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. John Milton Adages New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large. John Milton Sayings No nightly trance or breathèd spell, / Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. John Milton Adages None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. John Milton Quotations Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. John Milton Remarks Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail / Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,/ Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair,/ And what may quiet us in a death so noble. John Milton Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. John Milton Remarks O fairest flower, no sooner blown but blasted, / Soft silken primrose fading timelessly. John Milton O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. John Milton O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings! John Milton Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe John Milton Oft he seems to hide his face, / But unexpectedly returns / And to his faithful champion hath in place / Bore witness gloriously. John Milton Popular Quotes One tongue is sufficient for a woman John Milton Adages Servant of God, well done; well hast thou fought The better fight John Milton Quotations So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good John Milton Popular Quotes 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. John Milton Quotations So when the sun in bed, / Curtained with cloudy red, / Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. John Milton Sober, steadfast, and demure. John Milton Quotations Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence. John Milton Still govern thou my song, / Urania, and fit audience find, though few. John Milton Store of ladies, whose bright eyes / Rain influence, and judge the prize. John Milton Quotes Storied of old in high immortal verse / Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles, / And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to Hell. John Milton Popular Quotes Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce Angels John Milton Adages The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words John Milton Sayings 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. John Milton Popular Quotes The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. John Milton The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him John Milton The melting voice through mazes running;/ Untwisting all the chains that tie / The hidden soul of harmony. John Milton The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven John Milton The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven. John Milton The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. John Milton The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill John Milton Quotations Thence up he flew, and on the Tree of Life,/ The middle tree and highest there that grew, / Sat like a cormorant. John Milton Quotes They also serve who only stand and wait. John Milton Adages Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. John Milton Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way. John Milton To chronicle the wars of kites and crows, fighting in the air. John Milton Quotations To many a youth and many a maid, / Dancing in the chequered shade. John Milton Adages To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n John Milton Remarks Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new John Milton Remarks Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. John Milton Quotations Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. John Milton Quotes Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, / Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled. John Milton Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm - Shall in the happy trial prove most glory John Milton What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men John Milton Adages What is strength without a double share of wisdom? John Milton Remarks When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. John Milton Popular Quotes Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making John Milton Remarks Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. John Milton Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton Quotes Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. John Milton Sayings With thee conversing I forget all time. John Milton Adages With thy long levelled rule of streaming light. John Milton Quotations Without the meed of some melodious tear. John Milton Popular Quotes Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possess'd John Milton Sayings Yet from those flames / No light, but rather darkness visible / Served only to discover sights of woe, / Regions of sorrow, doleful shades where peace / And rest can never dwell, hope never comes / That comes to all. John Milton