Best John Milton Sayings
- Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist,… Amidst
- Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth. Angel
- With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. Confounded
- Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. All
- Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union… Action
- Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. Belial
- O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime… Abuse
- Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. Compulsion
- Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! Bird
- With thee conversing I forget all time. All
- Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation. Cherub
- Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. Among
- Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. Ease
- Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But all these in… Abyss
- 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… Aright
- Methought I saw my late espoused saint. Espoused
- By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps… Die
- The gay motes that people the sunbeams. Gay
- Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss. Beautiful
- Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell. Hell
- I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green,… Ascent
- But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing… All
- He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem. Frustrate
- Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward. Argue
- Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die. Annihilating
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