O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only. John Milton More Quotes by John Milton More Quotes From John Milton The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. John Milton starslonelylying God made thee perfect, not immutable. John Milton theemadeperfect Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. John Milton selfmenbook Antichrist is Mammon's son. John Milton antichristson Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament. John Milton christian-inspirationalopportunitybeauty What hath night to do with sleep? John Milton insomniasleepnight And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild, And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. John Milton summerdreamchildren He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure. John Milton greatnessdonedoe Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. John Milton musicsweetlying Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton gratitudethankfulnessforever O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings. John Milton angelfaithwings If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself. John Milton ifs In naked beauty most adorned. John Milton nakedsexy Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale gessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freaked with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well attir'd woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears: Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffadillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. John Milton glowingflowerlying None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. John Milton freedomlovemen This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. John Milton horrorlightdarkness So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life. John Milton boyfriendlovelife Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. John Milton naturedoneresponsibility Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. John Milton jealousyemotionnegative Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. John Milton starsflowermorning
