Quotes
Quotes - Milton
For such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
So sang they, and the empyrean rung With Hallelujahs. Thus was Sabbath kept.
Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight.
They also serve who only stand and wait.
Then purg'd with euphrasy and rue The visual nerve, for he had much to see.
If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
We see things not as they are but as we are.
Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat; Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe That all was lost.
So many laws argues so many sins.
Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.
Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.
Or did the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.
The planets in their station list'ning stood.
Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
For smiles from reason flow To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.
A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night.
Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote.
Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.
Ride the air In whirlwind.
And, weaponless himself, Made arms ridiculous.
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
