1,273 Quotes by John Milton

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature.

Where the bright seraphim in burning rowTheir loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.

For indeed none can love freedom heartily, but good men: the rest love not freedom, but license: which never hath more scope, or more indulgence than under tyrants...consequently neither do bad men hate tyrants, but have always been readiest with falsified names of Loyalty and Obedience to color over their base compliance.

Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards.

Immortal amarant, a flower which onceIn paradise, fast by the tree of life,Began to bloom; but soon for man's offenceTo heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows,And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life,And where the river of bliss through midst of heavenRolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream:With these that never fade the spirits electBind their resplendent locks.

Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle hand Seisd mine, I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelld by manly grace.