John Milton Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Men Quotes

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

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And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.

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The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

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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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Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

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Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate her edge, Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

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Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.

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If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

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Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child!

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But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.

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And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

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Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

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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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Where all life dies death lives.

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Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

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