Best John Milton Quotations
- No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. All
- For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: /… Absolute
- Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in… All
- It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or… Account
- In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Change
- A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem Bring
- By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our… Arrives
- Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round Ballet
- To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade. Ballet
- Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping… Amber
- Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with… All
- What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and… Air
- And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell… Age
- His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He… Burning
- Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing… All
- A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war. All
- Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden. Blame
- Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss. All
- Let us go forth and resolutely dare with sweat of brow to toil our little day. Brow
- It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. All
- The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long. Academe
- Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies,… Battlements
- The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine,… Apollo
- Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous… Amorous
- True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. Covetousness
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