1,273 Quotes by John Milton

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men’s names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.

The Angel ended, and in Adam’s ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix’d to hear.

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang’d To hoarse or mute, though fall’n on evil days, On evil days though fall’n, and evil tongues.

Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.

Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme.

In God’s intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

Witness this new-made world, another Heav’n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr’s Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world Of destined habitation.