John Milton Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes, Eye Quotes

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.

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

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Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.

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

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

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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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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

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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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Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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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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A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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God made thee perfect, not immutable.

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