Quotes from John Milton

What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

So little knows Any, but God alone, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.

What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!

Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.

God shall be all in all.

Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

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

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

And feel that I am happier than I know.

Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.