96 result(s) for Milton Quotes.
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
"To be weak is miserable, Doing or Suffering."
"A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw."
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"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine."
"For so I created them free and free they must remain."
"Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe."
"What hath night to do with sleep?"
"Give me above all liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
"License they mean when they cry liberty."
"Evil be thou my good."
"Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose."
"Truth is strong next to the Almighty."
"For what can war, but endless war still breed?"
"Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil."
"Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with charm of earliest birds."
"Solitude sometimes is best society."
"They dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build."
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"Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the World, and all our woe, with loss of Eden, till one greater Man restore us."
"To know and to utter freely, according to conscience, is above all liberties."
"Darkness visible."
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year!"
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
"A thousand liveries lackey to thy band, dropping the manna in thy gaping maw."
"Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war."
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
"What is dark within me, illumine."
"Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved."
"New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large."
"Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn."
"They flee from me and I pursue them."
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"Those thoughts, that wander through eternity."
"For what can war but endless war still breed?"
"The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."
"Licence they mean when they cry liberty."
"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making."
"I hate a pupil that will not call his master to an account for his own teachings."
"For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty."
"Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers."
"What is strength without a double share of wisdom?"
"Darkness visible"
"They cannot taste who always drink."
"Yet not to be overcome."
"Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who ... hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds."
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!"
"The proof of virtue is to try
If thou canst reach to live above
The pleasant valley of thy sense."
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n."
"Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne."
"His words replete with guile into her heart too easy entrance won."
"So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear."
"They themselves ordained their fall."
"Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know?"
"Truth is strong, next to the Almighty."
"The debt immense of endless gratitude."
"They err who count it glorious to subdue by force, what may be won by judgement."
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, / Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!"
"A little onward lend thy guiding hand to these dark steps, a little further on!"
"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war."
"What is dark within, illumine, what is low raise and support."
"Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord envy them what he himself knows, since he persists to keep them in this state of mind, what is knowledge?"
"Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in lieu shadowy horrors."
"Thus with the year seasons return, but not to me returns day, or the sweet approach of even or morn."
"They cannot change their minds, who are changed from good to bad; that argument shall not remove, with me, one step, nor what I hold for truth, shall be in doubt."
"Into what Pit thou seest From what highth fal'n, so much the stronger prov'd He with his Thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire Arms?"
"But to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without."
"They err who count it glorious to subdue by force, and force hath greatest right; though what though right be proved the strongest, in the mortal field?"
"O foul descent! that I who erst contended with Gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime."
"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield."
"Solitude is sometimes best society."
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year!"
"Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n."
"They stumble that run fast."
"They cannot be free themselves unless they be fitted, and besides, it is but justice, not to accept that from them which they themselves do not perform."
"I hate a generalisation, especially one about all Americans."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw."
"The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."
"O shame to human life, nor smiles, nor joys, / Remain where thou art, or where thou dost advise!"
"Truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defenses that error uses against her power."
"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."
"Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned than war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw."
"He who reigns within himself and rules Passions, desires, and fears is more a king."
"To know And knowing worship God aright, is highest."
"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
"One who with pain treads the hard road of duty; sees with joy the end when it gives him rest."
"They cannot taste the fruit of divine knowledge but from the tree of disobedience."
"I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, and virtue has no tongue to check her pride."
"Be not too strict, but temper your ideals, So earth be your inheritance at last."
"So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good"
"They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great glory think, and endless fame attain"
"Unrespited, unpitied, unprepared."
"Yet not for those, nor what the Potent may do, but to free utterance of what I conceive."
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