John Milton Quotes, Sports Quotes, Wind Quotes

Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.

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Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?

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Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.

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Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

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Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

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So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

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Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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Reason also is choice.

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

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When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

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The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

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Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.

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Hide me from day's garish eye.

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And to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

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