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
mother art eye
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
darkness weakness martyr
The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
education noble green
I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
perfection parent soul
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
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One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.
ignorance knowledge envy
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!
beautiful coins bliss
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
sleep night insomnia
What hath night to do with sleep?
running dust race
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.
lonely loneliness eye
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
happiness inspiring recovery
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
life design luck
Luck is the residue of design.
courage revenge hate
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.