John Milton Quotes

Only supreme in misery!

Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.

Those who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.

For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead,
Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor;
So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed;
And yet anon repairs his drooping head,
And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled ore
Flames in the forehead of the morning sky.
So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high,
Through the dear might of him that walked the waves.

Sport, that wrinkled Care derides,
And Laughter, holding both his sides.
Come, and trip it, as you go.
On the light fantastic toe.

To be weak is miserable,
Doing or suffering.

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

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 their pregnant causes mixed/ Confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,/ Unless the Almighty Maker them ordain/ His dark materials to create more worlds, — / Into this wild Abyss the wary Fiend/ Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while,/ Pondering his voyage; for no narrow frith/ He had to cross.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is,.....

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.

Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench
Of British Themis, with no mean applause
Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,
Which others at their Bar so often wrench

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom,
Far from all resort of mirth,
Save the cricket on the hearth.

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear