He who tempts, though in vain, at last asperses John Milton More Quotes by John Milton More Quotes From John Milton Freely we serve, because freely we love. John Milton serving-others 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. John Milton natureairspring Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. John Milton paradisewardeath Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light. John Milton lightpowerlong There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth. John Milton readingwritingmen Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. John Milton lucifergrowshate Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin! John Milton envyignoranceknowledge A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton readingspiritbook To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. John Milton ableblindbears Solitude is sometimes best society. John Milton solitudesometimes The virtuous mind that ever walks attended John Milton championstrongmind Luck is the residue of design. John Milton wittywarlife All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield. John Milton haterevengecourage Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind. John Milton of-my-mindmind So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. John Milton difficultylabourhard The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ. John Milton biblefatherjesus Thus with the year John Milton flowersummersweet The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. John Milton parentgraceperfection [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 italiannumberslong Solitude is sometimes the best society. John Milton solitudesometimes
