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Quotes from John Milton

The planets in their stations list'ning stood,While the bright pomp ascended jubilant.Open, ye everlasting gates, they sung,Open, ye heavens, your living doors; let inThe great Creator from his work return'dMagnificent, his six days' work, a world.
~ John Milton
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
~ John Milton
Fill'd the air with barbarous dissonance.
~ John Milton
Ere the blabbing eastern scout,The nice morn on th' Indian steep,From her cabin'd loophole peep.
~ John Milton
How sweetly did they float upon the wingsOf silence, through the empty-vaulted night,At every fall smoothing the raven downOf darkness till it smil'd!
~ John Milton
Which if not victory is yet revenge.
~ John Milton
Death… on his pale horse.
~ John Milton
By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
~ John Milton
A bevy of fair women.
~ John Milton
Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity:She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
~ John Milton
As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.
~ John Milton
He onward came; far off his coming shone.
~ John Milton
Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd highOf Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate,Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute,And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
~ John Milton
Just are the ways of God,And justifiable to men;Unless there be who think not God at all.
~ John Milton
Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
~ John Milton
Praising the lean and sallow abstinence.
~ John Milton
In naked beauty more adorn'd,More lovely, than Pandora.
~ John Milton
Hail divinest Melancholy.
~ John Milton
Dark with excessive bright.
~ John Milton
Elephants endorsed with towers.
~ John Milton
Who bestBear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his stateIs kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,And post o'er land and ocean without rest;They also serve who only stand and wait.
~ John Milton
No war, or battle's soundWas heard the world around.The idle spear and shield were high up hung.
~ John Milton
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'stLive well; how long or short permit to Heaven.
~ John Milton
Adam the goodliest man of men since bornHis sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
~ John Milton