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With thee conversing I forget all time.

Love, Companionship, Timelessness, Conversation, Relationship

With thee conversing I forget all time

With thee conversing I forget all time

With thee conversing I forget all time

John Milton’s Quotes On Topics

More John Milton Quotes

“Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”

Redemption, Struggle, Hell, Light, Spiritual Journey

“For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.”

Books, Knowledge, Good And Evil, Discernment, Intellectual Nourishment

“Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!”

Strength, Happiness, Love, Obedience, Divine Command

“Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.”

Free Will, Human Nature, Moral Choice, Divine Creation, Fall Of Man

“For what is glory but the blaze of fame?”

Glory, Fame, Reputation, Human Ambition, Questioning

“Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”

Truth, Freedom, Debate, Intellectual Integrity, Knowledge

“Day and night, Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new.”

Nature, Cycles, Time, Renewal, Apocalypse

“Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.”

Corruption, Liberty, Bondage, National Character, Moral Decay

“Join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.”

Peace, Tranquility, Fasting, Divine Communion, Spiritual Practice

“God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts. Who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed, And post o'er land and ocean without rest; They also serve who only stand and wait.”

Divine Service, Humility, Patience, Obedience, Human Purpose

“With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.”

Nature, Melancholy, Flowers, Poetry, Imagery

“Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.”

Supernatural, Virginity, Protection, Night, Folklore

“So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.”

Chastity, Virtue, Divine Protection, Purity, Angelic Guardianship

“Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”

Nature, Music, Solitude, Melancholy, Wisdom

“Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.”

Poetry, Inspiration, Creativity, Harmony, Thought

“Freely we serve, because freely we love.”

Freedom, Service, Love, Choice, Devotion

“The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.”

Wisdom, Humility, Knowledge, Socratic Method, Self-awareness

“Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.”

Knowledge, Morality, Books, Conscience, Purity

“Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.”

Obedience, Love, Free Will, Divine Order, Angelic Nature

“Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.”

Gender Roles, Divine Law, Power, Marriage, Patriarchy