Luck is the residue of design. John Milton More Quotes by John Milton More Quotes From John Milton The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. John Milton eden hands world Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton powerful military war They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness. John Milton blindness eye people Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements. John Milton elements may time Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. John Milton black cooking food Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. John Milton light moon sea What is strength without a double share of wisdom? John Milton share motivational inspirational O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. John Milton grief dark loss Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. John Milton pandemonium peers satan For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. John Milton angel hypocrite men He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. John Milton race christian running Me miserable! Which way shall I fly John Milton wrath suffering heaven 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. John Milton freedom skills men Hell has no benefits, only torture. John Milton torture hell benefits Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n. John Milton lucifer arise fall Who aspires must down as low John Milton paradise-lost-book-9 soar lows Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, John Milton woe shadow world Death ready stands to interpose his dart. John Milton ready death But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. John Milton soul lust art No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set. John Milton rubrics astrology
