John Milton quotes - page 2

But O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone and never must return! (John Milton)
Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony. View quote
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Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! View quote
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It was the winter wild While the Heav'n-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. View quote
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words. View quote
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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. View quote
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Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. View quote
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What is strength without a double share of wisdom? View quote
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But oh! as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night. View quote
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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. View quote
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Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. (John Milton)
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. View quote
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For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need. View quote
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Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies. View quote
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Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth. View quote
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And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. View quote
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Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air? View quote
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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him. View quote
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Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam. View quote
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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold. View quote
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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory. (John Milton)
Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. View quote
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In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth. View quote
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Where more is meant than meets the ear. View quote
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Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. View quote
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