Quotes from John Milton
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair that ever since in love's embraces met -- Adam, the goodliest man of men since born his sons; the fairest of her daughters Eve.
- John Milton
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
- John Milton
My mansion is, where those immortal shapes of bright aerial spirits live in sphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, above the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call Earth.
- John Milton
God has set labor and rest, as day and night to men successive.
- John Milton
The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
- John Milton
So shall the world go on, to good malignant, to bad men benign, under her own weight groaning.
- John Milton
Angels contented with their face in heaven, seek not the praise of men.
- John Milton
For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?
- John Milton
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.
- John Milton
None but such as are good men can give good things, and that which is not good, is not delicious to a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
- John Milton
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.
- John Milton
Spirits that live throughout, Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die.
- John Milton