John Milton Quotes, Strong Quotes, Heart Quotes

There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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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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For so I created them free and free they must remain.

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When the new light which we beg for shines in upon us, there be [those] who envy and oppose, if it come not first in at their casements.

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Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

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Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.

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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

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The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

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Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

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To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.

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And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

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By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

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The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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