John Milton Quotes, Temptation Quotes, Lasts Quotes

He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses The tempted with dishonor foul, supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation.

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For what is glory but the blaze of fame?

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For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

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Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

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Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.

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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

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Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

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Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them....I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.

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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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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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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

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