John Milton

Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.

— John Milton

Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.

— John Milton

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

— John Milton

Execute their airy purposes.

— John Milton

Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

— John Milton

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

— John Milton

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

— John Milton

The never-ending flight Of future days.

— John Milton

And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

— John Milton

They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.

— John Milton

Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.

— John Milton

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

— John Milton

Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

— John Milton

Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.

— John Milton

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

— John Milton

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

— John Milton

“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely…

— John Milton

Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten…

— John Milton

A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of…

— John Milton

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.

— John Milton

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget…

— John Milton

My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above…

— John Milton

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Ev'n them who kept thy truth so…

— John Milton

It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;…

— John Milton

“But to guide nations in the way of Truth By saving Doctrine, and from error lead To know, and knowing worship God…

— John Milton

Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures Whilst the landscape round it measures, Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where the nibbling flocks…

— John Milton

“Though all winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously…

— John Milton

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should…

— John Milton

Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I…

— John Milton

“When I Consider How My Light Is Spent When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this…

— John Milton

The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the…

— John Milton

“    Lead then, said EVE. Hee leading swiftly rowld   In tangles, and make intricate seem strait,   To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy…

— John Milton

“Farewel happy Fields Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One…

— John Milton

For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or…

— John Milton

Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a quiver'd nymph with arrows keen,…

— John Milton

“Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n, Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom So strictly, but much…

— John Milton

“  Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair   Tended the sick busiest from Couch to Couch;   And over them triumphant Death his…

— John Milton