John Milton
John Milton
John Miltonwas an English poet, polemicist, and man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 December 1608
angel heaven soul
So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.
hate winning hands
Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.
philosophy charming divine
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb
prayer justice pace
Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.
heart winning firsts
Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
passion judgement free-will
Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.
evil recoil
Evil on itself shall back recoil.
faith helping virtue
And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?
faith causes failing
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.
god father giving
Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.
thinking goodness ill
Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
knowledge firsts knows
The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.
men causes argument
In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.
marriage husband study
Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.