FastSaying

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n


John Milton

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manse...
BIBLE Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like...
BIBLE Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
CHARLES WESLEY Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Nor knowest thou what argument Thy like to thy neighbor's creed has lent, All are needed by ea...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowl...
BIBLE That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which ...
RICHARD ROLLE This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if...
HONORE DE BALZAC If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE Send me nor this, nor that, to increase my store,
But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no m...
JOHN DONNE Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no mean...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love the...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor...
BIBLE Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold th...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without governmen...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
C. S. CALVERLEY Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the god...
RICHARD BAXTER Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.
VANNA BONTA Bird of the amber beak, Bird of the golden wing! Thy dower is thy carolling; Thou hast n...
EDMUND C. STEDMAN Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the f...
BIBLE Life can seem short or life can seem long, depending on how you live it.
PAULO COELHO The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation which neither ...
BIBLE And of whom hast thou been afraid or feared, that thou hast lied, and hast not remembered me, nor la...
BIBLE Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.
OVID Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall ...
BIBLE O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself th...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The way of love;Love is hard to forecast nor define.The shape,nor size,nor tribe,nor qualification o...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sor...
CASSANDRA CLARE Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with...
BIBLE Fear no more the heat o the sun, nor the furious winter's rages. Thou thy worldly task hast done, ho...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Tho...
GEORGE MACDONALD Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a...
BIBLE Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou ...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Dee...
WILLIAM BLAKE Thou hast nor youth nor age, but, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep, dreaming on both.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Wit thou well that I will notlive long after thy days.
SIR THOMAS MALORY Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will n...
EMILY DICKINSON Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee ...
JOHN DONNE Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine;
Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine!
ALEXANDER POPE And these few precepts in thy memory
Look thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We are pleased to have delivered this order to El.Ma as it is the next step in our collaboration. We...
PETER NOR Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs Of coming mi...
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death...
D.H. LAWRENCE Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, vi...
BIBLE Vlad made a mental note to amend the friend code: thou shalt not date the girl that thy best friend ...
HEATHER BREWER Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes? (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Neither turn to thy own way nor seek thy own gain. But inquire the good way's of God.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I love you without knowing how, nor when, nor from where,
I love you directly without problems ...
PABLO NERUDA Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessaries
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
GUILLAUME DE SALLUSTE DU BARTAS Breed not a savage dog, nor permit a loose stairway
THE TALMUD Neither bribe nor loose thy right.
GEORGE HERBERT Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne.
GEORGE HERBERT Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Thy letter sent to prove me, Inflicts no sense of wrong; No longer wilt thou love me,-- ...
HEINRICH HEINE People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had m...
WERNER HERZOG The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel...
OMAR KHAYYAM Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer.
GEORGE HERBERT Deceive not thy physician, confessor, nor lawyer
GEORGE HERBERT The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure...
OMAR KHAYYáM If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES Farewell, vain world, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st say of me; Th...
EPITAPH You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.
EURIPIDES Make me to see't; or at the least so prove it That the probation bear no hinge nor loop To han...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full! This narrow cell was Life's ret...
ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN) Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The ...
WILLIAM MORRIS I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
DONNA LYNN HOPE In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. F...
JOHN WESLEY Being aware that he had but a short time to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in immo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough ...
STEVE TOLTZ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or...
ANONYMOUS Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin; For to deny each article with oath Cannot remove nor...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outl...
EUDORA WELTY She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least; nor are those empty-hearted whose low sounds reverb ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
WILLIAM COWPER Greece, sound thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, / But England's Milton equals both in fame.
WILLIAM COWPER And Moses said unto the LORD, O my LORD, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast ...
BIBLE God’s love does not permit us to hate anybody
SUNDAY ADELAJA Life ain't hard nor Good it's how we choose to live which define how life is.... and only the strong...
GUNDO MULAUDZI It's both, it all depends on how you choose to live it. Forever is always changing.'

[Abo...
SARAH DESSEN Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease...
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD As thou know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is...
COMPTON GAGE Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experienc...
WILLIAM SAROYAN DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number --just enough to permit an intelligent selecti...
AMBROSE BIERCE Mind your mind, mind your time and mind your life! Life is just once and the real certainty or uncer...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
MARCUS AURELIUS Concluding a short series on authenticity: Think thyself at that Tribunal, that judgment, now: W...
JOHN DONNE Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance ...
SIR WALTER RALEIGH

More John Milton

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
JOHN MILTON Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the ...
JOHN MILTON No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
JOHN MILTON Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kil...
JOHN MILTON Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
JOHN MILTON A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
JOHN MILTON He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid...
JOHN MILTON The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and comm...
JOHN MILTON For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
JOHN MILTON How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down...
JOHN MILTON Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libe...
JOHN MILTON A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
JOHN MILTON Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
JOHN MILTON Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
JOHN MILTON But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear T...
JOHN MILTON The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON The rising world of waters dark and deep.
JOHN MILTON Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flo...
JOHN MILTON Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills r...
JOHN MILTON Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as act...
JOHN MILTON Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bl...
JOHN MILTON Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
JOHN MILTON Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
JOHN MILTON Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear u...
JOHN MILTON That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, a...
JOHN MILTON O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
JOHN MILTON If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
JOHN MILTON Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd In ignorance; ...
JOHN MILTON What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
JOHN MILTON Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
JOHN MILTON Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
JOHN MILTON Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
JOHN MILTON Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
JOHN MILTON Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.
JOHN MILTON Solitude sometimes is best society.
JOHN MILTON Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
JOHN MILTON What hath night to do with sleep?
JOHN MILTON Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moment...
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,...
JOHN MILTON How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb
JOHN MILTON When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound ...
JOHN MILTON Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON License they mean when they cry liberty.
JOHN MILTON Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,...
JOHN MILTON And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and ...
JOHN MILTON Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not pe...
JOHN MILTON As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's im...
JOHN MILTON Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON With thee conversing I forget all time.
JOHN MILTON He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
JOHN MILTON Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
JOHN MILTON Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, blo...
JOHN MILTON Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
JOHN MILTON Our country is where ever we are well off.
JOHN MILTON What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He tha...
JOHN MILTON To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or begga...
JOHN MILTON When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
JOHN MILTON Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
JOHN MILTON Reason also is choice.
JOHN MILTON For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God a...
JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid...
JOHN MILTON A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th...
JOHN MILTON It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
JOHN MILTON Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time ...
JOHN MILTON Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather th...
JOHN MILTON Lords are lordliest in their wine.
JOHN MILTON Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
JOHN MILTON From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scann...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
JOHN MILTON Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
JOHN MILTON And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
JOHN MILTON Tears such as angels weep.
JOHN MILTON Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
JOHN MILTON What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi...
JOHN MILTON Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
JOHN MILTON In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora.
JOHN MILTON Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot...
JOHN MILTON If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, M...
JOHN MILTON . . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign words.
JOHN MILTON He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow.
JOHN MILTON Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
JOHN MILTON Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
JOHN MILTON Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
JOHN MILTON In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,) Others apart sat o...
JOHN MILTON But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-w...
JOHN MILTON While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the bar...
JOHN MILTON So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
JOHN MILTON There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over thi...
JOHN MILTON Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedde...
JOHN MILTON The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
JOHN MILTON A short retirement urges a sweet return.
JOHN MILTON What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
JOHN MILTON When I consider how my light is spent
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
JOHN MILTON Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
JOHN MILTON Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
JOHN MILTON From morn To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun ...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills...
JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of ...
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, o...
JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, Th...
JOHN MILTON To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd Not to defer; hunge...
JOHN MILTON So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.
JOHN MILTON (Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
JOHN MILTON That golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please ...
JOHN MILTON Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
JOHN MILTON Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash.
JOHN MILTON A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man, God's ...
JOHN MILTON Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
JOHN MILTON Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
JOHN MILTON Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till a...
JOHN MILTON Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
JOHN MILTON Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
JOHN MILTON O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou wi...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
JOHN MILTON For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is ac...
JOHN MILTON And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
JOHN MILTON Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
JOHN MILTON Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
JOHN MILTON So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns...
JOHN MILTON From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
JOHN MILTON For such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep With ruin upon ruin, ro...
JOHN MILTON The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
JOHN MILTON These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
JOHN MILTON Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
JOHN MILTON With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o...
JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.
JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's mar...
JOHN MILTON Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
JOHN MILTON Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.
JOHN MILTON For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
JOHN MILTON Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
JOHN MILTON Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
JOHN MILTON Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
JOHN MILTON For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine...
JOHN MILTON Power ought to serve as a check to power.
JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
JOHN MILTON He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
JOHN MILTON So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
JOHN MILTON If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
JOHN MILTON Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures ...
JOHN MILTON For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher ...
JOHN MILTON Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
JOHN MILTON Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition.
JOHN MILTON I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
JOHN MILTON For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence ...
JOHN MILTON The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON