John Milton Quotes

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx th...

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

Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

Shalt thou give law to God, shalt thou disputeWith Him the points of liberty who madeThee what thou ...

But now at last the sacred influenceOf light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'nShoots far into the...

Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast Is open? or will God incense his ire For such a petty ...

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to goo...

A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then...

In yonder nether world where shall I seekHis bright appearances or footstep trace?For though I fled ...

And of the sixth day yet remainedThere wanted yet the master work, the endOf all yet done: a creatur...

So spake the enemy of mankind, enclosedIn serpent, inmate bad! and toward EveAddressed his way: not ...

O fairest of all creation, last and bestOf all God's works, creature in whom excelledWhatever can to...

Infernal world, and thou profoundest HellReceive thy new Possessor: One who bringsA mind not to be c...

Our torments also may in length of timeBecome our Elements.

So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found,Among the faithless, faithful only hee;Among innumerable f...

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light;...

What hath night to do with sleep?

I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfull...

Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher t...

Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher t...

So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried a...

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright...

Where glowing embers through the roomTeach light to counterfeit a gloom...

And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is A...

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libert...

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...

For books are not absolutely dead things, but... do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and ex...

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most ma...

He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation th...

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

Grace was in all her steps heaven in her eye In every gesture dignity and love.

To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night. From his watchtower in the sk...

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

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,Said then the lost Archangel, this the seatThat we must...

Celestial light, shine inward...that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions desires and fears is more than a king.

Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon ...

Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rsFeed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and ...

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great comma...

Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n,Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doomSo stri...

Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.

Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: wit...

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follo...

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

Servant of God well done.

Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell.

Where more is meant than meets the ear.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/...

They also serve who only stand and wait.

Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,With purpose to explore or to disturbThe secrets of your real...

Now came still evening on, and twilight grayHad in her sober livery all things clad;Silence accompan...

But first whom shall we sendIn search of this new world, whom shall we findSufficient? Who shall tem...

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo wor...

The brazen throat of war.

So many laws argue so many sins.

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

But say I could repent and could obtaineBy Act of Grace my former state: how soonwould higth recal h...

Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether foo...

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a...

Athens the eye of Greece mother of arts And eloquence.

Where no hope is left is left no fear.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught which else free will Would not admit.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...

Servant of God well done! Well hast thou fought The better fight.

Since good the more Communicated more abundant grows.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

Luck is the residue of design.

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done but do.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature God's im...

Reason is also choice.

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,And pavement stars—as starts to thee appearSoon in the ga...

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

Give me the liberty to know to think to believe and to utter freely according to conscience abov...

None can love freedom heartily but good men - the rest love not freedom but licence.

From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped f...

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.

Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy the only evil that walks invisible.

Freely we serveBecause we freely love, as in our willTo love or not; in this we stand or fall.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven.

Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spiri...