John Milton Quotes, Beauty Quotes, Lying Quotes

Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

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

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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

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That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

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

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

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Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

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So may'st thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap.

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Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

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Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

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Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

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The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

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

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Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.

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Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

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A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars,--as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.

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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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The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

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My sentence is for open war.

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