Bird Quote by John Milton

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

God is thy law, thou mine.

— John Milton

With thee conversing I forget all time.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

— John Milton

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

— John Milton

Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.

— John Milton

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

— John Milton

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

— John Milton

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

— John Milton

Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

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

— John Milton