John Milton Quotes, Book Quotes, Eye Quotes

And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye.

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Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathèd Smiles.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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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, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

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

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Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

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Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

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Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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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.

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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

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Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

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And out of good still to find means of evil.

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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

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So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey.

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It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

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Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

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