Quotes from John Milton

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day.

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

Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

When we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man's limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man's imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.

Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem grounded on what is just and right and well-managed.

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.