John Milton Quotes

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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With thee conversing I forget all time.

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O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.

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

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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

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

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Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth.

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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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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.

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Dark with excessive bright.

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In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

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And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

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