Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half
John Milton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Soul
Claim
Thee
Claims
Seek
Half
Part
More quotes by John Milton
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
And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
John Milton
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
John Milton
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.
John Milton
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?
John Milton
With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
John Milton
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.
John Milton
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton
Yet some there be that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of Eternity.
John Milton
His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.
John Milton
O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men as angels without feminine, Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
John Milton
From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star.
John Milton
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
It is not good that man should be alone. ... Hitherto all things that have been named, were approved of God to be very good: loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good: whether it be a thing, or the want of something, I labour not.
John Milton
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.
John Milton
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
John Milton
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
John Milton
Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
John Milton
So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
John Milton
I on the other side Us'd no ambition to commend my deeds The deeds themselves, though mute, spoke loud the doer.
John Milton