Quotes about John Milton
And now without redemption all mankind must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
- John Milton
Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallowed feet and warbling flow, Nightly I visit.
- John Milton
If therefore the Father is the God of Christ and the same one is our God, and if there is no God but one, there can be no God beside the Father.
- John Milton
So spake the Son, and into terrour chang'd His count'nance too severe to be beheld And full of wrauth bent on his Enemies.
- John Milton
Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither self—condemning; And of their vain contest' appeared no end. (The closing lines of Book Nine, which illuminates The Fall.)
- John Milton
In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.
- John Milton
But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.
- John Milton
Time, though in Eternity, applied to motion, measures all things durable by present, past, and future.
- John Milton
Hear all ye Angels, progeny of light, Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers.
- John Milton
Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought the better fight, who single hast maintained against revolted multitudes the cause of truth, in word mightier than they in arms.
- John Milton
Into a limbo large and broad, since calledThe Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.
- John Milton
It was the winter wild while the Heav'n-born child all meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.
- John Milton