John Milton Quotes, Angel Quotes, Looks Quotes

Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.

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There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

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I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

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Reason is also choice.

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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

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Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

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Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

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

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.

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The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

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God made thee perfect, not immutable.

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Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

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