Quote

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

John Milton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Torments
Torment
Length
Elements
Become
Also
May
Time

More quotes by John Milton

Image
Our reason is our law.
John Milton
Image
Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.
John Milton
Image
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
Image
Our cure, to be no more sad cure!
John Milton
Image
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
John Milton
Image
And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.
John Milton
Image
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
John Milton
Image
The gay motes that people the sunbeams.
John Milton
Image
Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
John Milton
Image
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it. Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865. Or arm th' obdured breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
John Milton
Image
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
John Milton
Image
Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
Image
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
Image
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
John Milton
Image
For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.
John Milton
Image
This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
John Milton
Image
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
John Milton
Image
They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
John Milton
Image
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
John Milton
Image
Where all life dies death lives.
John Milton