John Milton Quotes, Sleep Quotes, Light Quotes

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

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The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.

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And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

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Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?

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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

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Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.

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And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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Solitude is sometimes the best society.

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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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The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.

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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

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It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

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Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?

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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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