Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.
John Milton Quotes
Abash’d the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely.
Believe not these suggestions, which proceed From anguish of the mind, and humors black That mingle with thy fancy.
Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but […]
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
‘Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
For books are not absolutely dead things, but… do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And […]
Calm of mind, all passion spent.
In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
