John Milton Quotes, Earth Quotes, Woe Quotes

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.

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Faithful found among the faithless.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.

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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness; the darkness and crookedness is our own. The wisdom of God created understanding, fit and proportionable to truth, the object and end of it, as the eye to the thing visible. If our understanding have a film of ignorance over it, or be blear with gazing on other false glitterings, what is that to truth?

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

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Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me?

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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

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Where shame is, there is also fear.

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Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

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Such joy ambition finds.

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Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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

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Education of youth is not a bow for every man to shoot in that counts himself a teacher; but will require sinews almost equal to those which Homer gave to Ulysses.

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

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