John Milton Quotes, Lakes Quotes, Keys Quotes

The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

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Reason is also choice.

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Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

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The planets in their station list'ning stood.

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

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Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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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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A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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With thee goes Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound; Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

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Where more is meant than meets the ear.

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It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.

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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

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Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

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Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.

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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

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