John Milton: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?”

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”

“Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.”

“To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.”

“Still paying, still to owe.
Eternal woe!”

“So shall the world go on,
To good malignant, to bad men benign,
Under her own weight groaning.”

“Then wilt thou not be loath
To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess
A Paradise within thee, happier far.”

“Heaven is for thee too high
To know what passes there; be lowly wise.
Think only what concerns thee and thy being;
Dream not of other worlds, what creatures there
Live, in what state, condition, or degree,
Contented that thus far hath been revealed.”

“Silence was pleased.”

“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”

“What is strength without a double share of wisdom?”

“The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler".”

“But oh! as to embrace me she inclined,
I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.”

“Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race:
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping Hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more than what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross.”

“I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.”

“From haunted spring and dale
Edged with poplar pale
The parting genius is with sighing sent.”

“Madam, methinks I see him living yet;
So well your words his noble virtues praise,
That all both judge you to relate them true,
And to possess them, honour'd Margaret.”

“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 leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.”