John Milton

“Commands are no constraints.”

— John Milton

Reason also is choice.

— John Milton

What is dark within me, illumine.

— John Milton

A short retirement urges a sweet return.

— John Milton

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

— John Milton

Hide me from day's garish eye.

— John Milton

Evil, be thou my good.

— John Milton

The timely dew of sleep.

— John Milton

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

— John Milton

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

— John Milton

Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.

— John Milton

How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

— John Milton

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

— John Milton

Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

— John Milton

“Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more.”

— John Milton

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

— John Milton

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was…

— John Milton

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

— John Milton

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together,…

— John Milton

A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond

— John Milton

And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

— John Milton

Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate to hearse when Lycid lies.

— John Milton

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

— John Milton

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

— John Milton

What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may…

— John Milton

First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud,…

— John Milton

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone,…

— John Milton

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both…

— John Milton

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving…

— John Milton

Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight…

— John Milton

“ALL WHO HAVE THEIR REWARD ON EARTH, THE FRUITS OF PAINFUL SUPERSTITION AND BLIND ZEAL, NOUGHT SEEKING BUT THE PRAISE OF MEN,…

— John Milton

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with…

— John Milton

“    So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd   In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward EVE   Address'd his way, not with indented wave,   Prone…

— John Milton

“Father, I do acknowledge and confess That I this honor, I this pomp have brought To Dagon, and advanc’d his praises high…

— John Milton

“  Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low   From vertue, which is reason, that no wrong,   But Justice, and some fatal curse annext…

— John Milton

“So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only hee; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyaltie…

— John Milton

“  Familiar to our eyes, all places else   Inhospitable appeer and desolate,   Nor knowing us nor known: and if by prayer   Incessant I…

— John Milton

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living…

— John Milton

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther…

— John Milton

“When I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one talent…

— John Milton