John Milton Quotes, Art Quotes, Loss Quotes

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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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

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

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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

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So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.

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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

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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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That power Which erring men call Chance.

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O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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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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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

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Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.

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In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

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But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

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The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

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A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

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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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