Quotes by John Milton
So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
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.
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven
Ay me! whilst thee the shores and sounding seas Wash far away, where e'er thy bones are hurl'd,...
Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?
A happy rural seat of various view: Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;...
Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety,...
Thus Satan talking to his neerest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes...
Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity,...
None can love freedom heartily but good men the rest love not freedom, but license.
Mortals that would follow me, Love vertue, she alone is free,...
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, and a Hell of Heaven.
So he with difficulty and labour hard Moved on, with difficulty and labour he;...
Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
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.
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
How gladly would I meet, Mortality, my sentence, and be earth...
Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
