Quotes from Paradise Regained — John Milton
1608–1674 England
26 quotes
Beauty stands in the admiration only of weak minds led captive.
Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.
Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.
Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
What honour that,
But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear
So many hollow compliments and lies.
The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.
Zeal and duty are not slow
But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell,
And devilish machinations come to nought.
Socrates * * *
Whom, well inspir'd, the oracle pronounc'd
Wisest of men.
Darkness now rose,
As daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night
Her shadowy offspring.
And ladies of the Hesperides, that seemed
Fairer than feign'd of old.
Till morning fair
Came forth with pilgrim steps in amice gray.
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