For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, is as good almost to kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, […]
John Milton Quotes
Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possess’d.
Beauty is Nature’s brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home.
Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men, Unless there be who think not God at all. If any be, they walk obscure; For of such doctrine never was there school, But the heart of the Fool, And no man therein doctor but himself.
For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.
I am a part of all that I have met.
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
