Quotes from John Milton
The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
- John Milton
Freely we serve, because freely we love.
- John Milton
But see! theVirgin blessed Hath laid her Babe to rest. Time is our tedious song should here have ending.
- John Milton
Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
- John Milton
Time, though in Eternity, applied to motion, measures all things durable by present, past, and future.
- John Milton
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
- John Milton
Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
- John Milton
Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.
- John Milton
But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; casting a dim religious light.
- John Milton
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
- 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
And on the tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, sat like a cormorant.
- John Milton