John Milton Quotes on World (10 Quotes)


    The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.

    Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

    And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.

    Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

    No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.


    He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. 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. 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.

    Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wip'd them soon The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They hand in hand, with wand'ring steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

    You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire you build egos the size of cathedrals fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there

    Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger

    Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe.


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