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Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.

Transcendence, Earthly Life, Higher Perspective, Spirituality, Human Existence

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which

John Milton’s Quotes On Topics

Discernment | Ambiance | Moral Guidance | Hell | Listening | Substance | Cosmic Conflict | Comfort | Cosmic Order | Divine Appeal | Dawn | Divine Authority | Self-esteem | Communion | Divine Creation | Humility | Manipulation | Self-love | Paradise Lost | Loneliness | More

More John Milton Quotes

“Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.”

Harmony, Soul, Freedom, Music, Metaphor

“Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?”

Suffering, Strength, Loss, Pain, Artistic Creation

“Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.”

Divine Providence, Trials, Strength, Faith, Personal Growth

“Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise.”

Fame, Motivation, Ambition, Spirit, Achievement

“How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!”

Night, Silence, Beauty, Darkness, Poetic Imagery

“Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.”

Eden, Adam And Eve, Paradise, Love, Innocence

“Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.”

Sacrifice, Sea, Mythology, Offering, Nature

“Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight?”

Equality, Society, Harmony, Relationships, Social Order

“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”

Music, Influence, Beauty, Power, Art

“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”

Mind, Perception, Reality, Heaven, Hell

“I thence invoke my thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”

Inspiration, Ambition, Poetry, Creativity, Literary Aspiration

“Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.”

Justice, Mercy, Balance, Satisfaction, Divine Judgment

“Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.”

Divine Judgment, Sin, Death, Misery, Fallen World

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

Truth, Rejection, Birth, Societal Response, Knowledge

“You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.”

Perception, Mind, Reality, Heaven, Hell

“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

Loneliness, Divine Judgment, Human Nature, Companionship, Creation

“If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man.”

Censorship, Regulation, Freedom, Pleasure, Societal Control

“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.”

Virtue, Challenge, Moral Strength, Experience, Life Struggle

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

Service, Patience, Duty, Inaction, Purpose

“Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”

Love, Unity, Relationship, Identity, Marriage