John Milton

Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

He who reigns within himself, and rules passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king.

Th unwieldy elephant To make them mirth usd all his might and wreathed His lithe proboscis.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Oh dark dark dark amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark total Eclipse Without all hope of day

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

Innocence, once lost, can never be regained; Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.

If you let slip time, like a neglected rose it withers on the stalk with languished head.

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires and fears is more than a king.

The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd the mother of mankind.

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

He seemed For dignity composd and high exploit But all was false and hollow.

A tyrant is but like a king upon a stage, a man in a vizor, and acting the part of a king in a play: he is not really a king.

Chance governs all.

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Go in thy native innocence, rely on what thou hast of virtue, summon all, for God towards thee hath done his part, do thine.

Yet some there be that by due steps aspire to lay their just hands on that golden key that opes the palace of Eternity.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue unexercised and unbreathed that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.

Here may we reign secure, and in my choice to reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

The mind in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.

So dear I love him, that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.

Towered cities please us then and the busy hum of men.

Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.

A crown golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Danger will wink on opportunity.

Biochemically love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Sweetest echo sweetest nymph that livst unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meanders margent green And in the violet embroidered vale.

The thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

Temper justice with mercy.

To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray through the heav'n's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

Time is the subtle thief of youth.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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.

To be blind is not miserable not to be able to bear blindness that is miserable.

Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.

To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

Gratitude bestows reverence allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.

Their rising all at once was as the sound of thunder heard remote.

Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

Gratitude bestows reverence allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

The best apology against false accusers is silence.