John Milton Quotes, Children Quotes, Mean Quotes

Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

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Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.

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Where shame is, there is also fear.

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Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, not bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

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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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Time, though in Eternity, applied To motion, measures all things durable By present, past, and future.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there Live, in what state, condition, or degree, Contented that thus far hath been revealed.

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Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

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In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

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If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.

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The brazen throat of war.

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Where more is meant than meets the ear.

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Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.

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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

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Ere the blabbing eastern scout, The nice morn, on th' Indian steep From her cabin'd loop-hole peep.

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