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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.


John Milton

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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him
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KELLY JONES Scientists seek to know the mind of god while engineers seek to imitate Him.
MARK GRANT People should try to know God and imitate him in their works. Repetitions and ceremonials are of no ...
DAYANANDA SARASWATI The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.
KEITH MILLER The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.
BLAISE PASCAL Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Kn...
JAMES I. PACKER ...for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because sh...
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
DAN BROWN Religion means to know God and to love Him.
A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPāDA To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...
BLAISE PASCAL The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384 In order to the existence of such a ministry in t...
JOHN WYCLIFFE The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
SOCRATES What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ To say how close John and dad were, I'd call him after meets - all the way up till the end. We discu...
BRIAN GRAY And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God,...
ANONYMOUS Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As you know Jesus more, you naturally love Him more. The less you know of Him, the less you love. To...
ERIC SAMUEL TIMM Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968 Our knowledge of God is paradoxica...
THOMAS MERTON The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery withou...
BLAISE PASCAL We must go out to Pure Life, Pure Truth, Pure Love, and that is the definition of God. He is the ult...
FULTON J. SHEEN It is the absence of the knowledge of God and man’s refusal to obey Him that lie at the root of ev...
BILLY GRAHAM To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.
A.W. TOZER As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of ...
DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS We cannot begin to define God's knowledge. We know, simply and profoundly, that nothing is hidden fr...
ELIZABETH GEORGE There are big advantages of living for God, therefore try to spend every minute you have walking wit...
SUNDAY ADELAJA In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL Things haven't panned out for him at Milton Keynes Dons and he now has the chance to put himself on ...
COLIN TODD Feast of John Vianney, Curè d'Ars, 1859 [Christ] is the breathing forth of the heart, life...
WILLIAM LAW It is very painful to think that John has no idea his family is sending him love and support during ...
JAMES BROSNAHAN Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
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NADèGE RICHARDS God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him ...
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the man to God, love brings him to ...
MARTIN LUTHER God doesn't expect us to be a walking encyclopedia of biblical knowledge. He wants us to know Him, t...
TYLER EDWARDS At the end of the day, that's our sole purpose and our sole reason for existing, is to love some...
NIKKI REED The vulgar think the God by analogy to man and so worship Him in the form of the Gods. The learned t...
R. SCOTT BAKKER Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary The Old Testament does not occupy itself...
BENJAMIN B. WARFIELD All that is in the world is vanity except to love God and serve him only.
THOMAS à KEMPIS Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open ...
HANS URS VON BALTHASAR Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go ...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE He's a great guy. I love learning from him and watching him. He brings a lot of intensity and experi...
DAN UGGLA Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him. Conversing with God about all the things th...
C. NEIL STRAIT God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
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LAILAH GIFTY AKITA That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
YOGI BERRA Many talk of Robin Hood that never shot his bow, And many talk of Little John that never did him k...
UNKNOWN Knowledge, and then love of G-d, is the
homecoming all long for, the banquet or feast
that...
EDWARD WEISS You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d...
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JOHANNES TAULER Its foolishness to claim that one is faithful towards God, when one is habitual of breaking the trus...
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KALLISTOS WARE Feast of the Holy Innocents The whole being of any Christian is Faith and Love... Faith brings th...
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DEIRDRE HANLEY All good things come from love; God used the cross a symbol of His love, to paralyze and defeat all ...
FELIX WANTANG The end of knowledge is LOVE.  The end of education is character.
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BIBLE God is glorified in his people by the way we experience him, not merely by the way we think about hi...
JOHN PIPER If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
YOGI BERRA If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
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JOHN WYCLIFFE True love is an intense desire for the presence of its object. God is only ours in reality when we a...
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FRANKLIN GRAHAM And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
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DOMINIC RICCITELLO I do not serve and never will serve the human body. I serve only the human soul - the soul that is t...
ABHIJIT NASKAR John was our brother and our friend, and we love him and miss him very much. He gave everything to t...
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BERNIE BICKERSTAFF Are you ready for the rapture of the church
Are you ready for Heaven
Our Lord Jesus Christ...
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HOWARD DEAN The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and c...
HOWARD CROSBY The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and c...
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TERTULLIAN Beauty fades, but knowledge is eternal
ANDREW FAIRCHILD Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that...
YASMIN MOGAHED I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnel...
LAUREN OLIVER To love someone meants to see him as God intended him.
FIODOR DOSTOIEVSKY To love someone means to see him as God intended him.
FYDOR DOSTOEVSKY It is the mixture of great bravery and humanity that made him a hero when he was alive and has ensur...
COLIN WHITE You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with hi...
ILONA ANDREWS

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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
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JOHN MILTON No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
JOHN MILTON Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kil...
JOHN MILTON Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
JOHN MILTON A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
JOHN MILTON He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid...
JOHN MILTON The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and comm...
JOHN MILTON For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
JOHN MILTON How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down...
JOHN MILTON Here at last
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the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libe...
JOHN MILTON A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
JOHN MILTON Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
JOHN MILTON Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
JOHN MILTON But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear T...
JOHN MILTON Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON The rising world of waters dark and deep.
JOHN MILTON Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flo...
JOHN MILTON Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
JOHN MILTON For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills r...
JOHN MILTON Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as act...
JOHN MILTON Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bl...
JOHN MILTON Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
JOHN MILTON Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
JOHN MILTON He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
JOHN MILTON Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear u...
JOHN MILTON That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, a...
JOHN MILTON O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
JOHN MILTON If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
JOHN MILTON Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd In ignorance; ...
JOHN MILTON What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
JOHN MILTON Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
JOHN MILTON Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
JOHN MILTON Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
JOHN MILTON Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
JOHN MILTON Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.
JOHN MILTON Solitude sometimes is best society.
JOHN MILTON Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
JOHN MILTON What hath night to do with sleep?
JOHN MILTON Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moment...
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,...
JOHN MILTON How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb
JOHN MILTON When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound ...
JOHN MILTON Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON License they mean when they cry liberty.
JOHN MILTON Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,...
JOHN MILTON And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and ...
JOHN MILTON Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not pe...
JOHN MILTON As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's im...
JOHN MILTON Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON With thee conversing I forget all time.
JOHN MILTON He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
JOHN MILTON Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
JOHN MILTON Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, blo...
JOHN MILTON Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
JOHN MILTON Our country is where ever we are well off.
JOHN MILTON What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He tha...
JOHN MILTON To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or begga...
JOHN MILTON When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
JOHN MILTON Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
JOHN MILTON Reason also is choice.
JOHN MILTON For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God a...
JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid...
JOHN MILTON A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th...
JOHN MILTON It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
JOHN MILTON Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time ...
JOHN MILTON Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather th...
JOHN MILTON Lords are lordliest in their wine.
JOHN MILTON Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
JOHN MILTON From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scann...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
JOHN MILTON Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
JOHN MILTON And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
JOHN MILTON Tears such as angels weep.
JOHN MILTON Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
JOHN MILTON What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi...
JOHN MILTON Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
JOHN MILTON In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora.
JOHN MILTON Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot...
JOHN MILTON If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, M...
JOHN MILTON . . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign words.
JOHN MILTON He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow.
JOHN MILTON Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
JOHN MILTON Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
JOHN MILTON Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
JOHN MILTON In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,) Others apart sat o...
JOHN MILTON But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-w...
JOHN MILTON While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the bar...
JOHN MILTON So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
JOHN MILTON There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over thi...
JOHN MILTON Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
JOHN MILTON This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedde...
JOHN MILTON The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
JOHN MILTON A short retirement urges a sweet return.
JOHN MILTON What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
JOHN MILTON When I consider how my light is spent
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
JOHN MILTON Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
JOHN MILTON Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
JOHN MILTON From morn To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun ...
JOHN MILTON So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON 'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
JOHN MILTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills...
JOHN MILTON O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of ...
JOHN MILTON O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, o...
JOHN MILTON Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, Th...
JOHN MILTON To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd Not to defer; hunge...
JOHN MILTON So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.
JOHN MILTON (Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
JOHN MILTON That golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please ...
JOHN MILTON Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
JOHN MILTON Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
JOHN MILTON But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!
JOHN MILTON But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash.
JOHN MILTON A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man, God's ...
JOHN MILTON Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
JOHN MILTON Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
JOHN MILTON Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till a...
JOHN MILTON Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
JOHN MILTON Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
JOHN MILTON O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou wi...
JOHN MILTON Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
JOHN MILTON For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is ac...
JOHN MILTON And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
JOHN MILTON Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
JOHN MILTON Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
JOHN MILTON So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns...
JOHN MILTON From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
JOHN MILTON For such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep With ruin upon ruin, ro...
JOHN MILTON The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
JOHN MILTON These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
JOHN MILTON Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
JOHN MILTON With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o...
JOHN MILTON The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.
JOHN MILTON Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's mar...
JOHN MILTON Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
JOHN MILTON Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.
JOHN MILTON For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
JOHN MILTON Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
JOHN MILTON Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
JOHN MILTON Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever plac...
JOHN MILTON Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
JOHN MILTON For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine...
JOHN MILTON Power ought to serve as a check to power.
JOHN MILTON Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
JOHN MILTON He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
JOHN MILTON So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
JOHN MILTON If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
JOHN MILTON Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures ...
JOHN MILTON For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher ...
JOHN MILTON Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
JOHN MILTON Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition.
JOHN MILTON I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
JOHN MILTON Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
JOHN MILTON For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence ...
JOHN MILTON The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON