John Milton Quotes, Life Quotes, Winning Quotes

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.

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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.

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The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

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O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.

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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

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O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?

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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

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And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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What is dark within me, illumine.

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And sing to those that hold the vital shears; And turn the adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.

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So many laws argues so many sins.

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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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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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

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Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.

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