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
virtue chimes teach
Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
men virtue admire
Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
kings people derivatives
The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.
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.