Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes by John Milton and many others.
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast’ry.
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses.
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn’d Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.
A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg’d.
Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?
For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
With thee conversing I forget all time.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
‘Paradise Lost’ is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.
O’er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th’ infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
Fate shall yield
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
For no falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper.
Touch of celestial temper.
Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
