Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. — John Milton Copy Share Image
And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?” — John Milton Copy Share Image
“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.” — John Milton Copy Share Image
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For the air of youth, Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign A melancholy damp of cold and dry To weigh… — John Milton Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living… — John Milton Copy Share Image
By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life;… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command… — John Milton Copy Share Image
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew? — John Milton Copy Share Image
Gratitude bestows reverence…changing forever how we experience life and the world. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them…I know they are as lively and as… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“ Henceforth I flie not Death, nor would prolong Life much, bent rather how I may be quit Fairest and easiest of this… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them… — John Milton Copy Share Image
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. — John Milton Copy Share Image
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they… — John Milton Copy Share Image
These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained? — John Milton Copy Share Image
