John Milton Quotes, Smell Quotes, Enemy Quotes

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Smell Quotes , Enemy Quotes

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Patience Quotes , Steel Quotes

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Perfection Quotes , Parent Quotes

Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Hope Quotes , Fire Quotes

All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Book Quotes , Men Quotes

The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Knowing Quotes , Tree Quotes

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sympathy Quotes , Condolences Quotes

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Forever Quotes

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Selfish Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Hate Quotes , Winning Quotes

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Pleasure Quotes , Feels Quotes

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Titles Quotes , Thrones Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Ivy Quotes , Watches Quotes

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Math Quotes , Umpires Quotes

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Flower Quotes , Embroidery Quotes

Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Dark Quotes , Night Quotes

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Eye Quotes , Squares Quotes

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : John Milton Quotes , Men Quotes , Virtue Quotes