Quotes from John Milton

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.

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

Our country is where ever we are well off.

There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

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

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

God is thy law, thou mine.

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.