Quotes from John Milton
What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!
- John Milton
Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.
- John Milton
Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience; therein stand.
- John Milton
God shall be all in all.
- John Milton
Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.
- John Milton
How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfet raigns.
- John Milton
For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.
- John Milton
For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- John Milton
These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!
- John Milton
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?
- John Milton
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.
- John Milton
What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
- John Milton