Paradise lost book 9 Quotes · Page 2

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin…

— John Milton

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

— John Milton

Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

— John Milton

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

— John Milton

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late.

— John Milton

O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be…

— John Milton

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell…

— John Milton

Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part,…

— Robert Browning

United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise.

— John Milton

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

— John Milton

For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God…

— John Milton

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

— John Milton

A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd.

— John Milton

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird,…

— John Milton

With thee conversing I forget all time.

— John Milton

Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the…

— John Milton

Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.

— John Milton

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

— John Milton

God is thy law, thou mine.

— John Milton

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of…

— John Milton

Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

— John Milton

Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

— John Milton

Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

— John Milton