8 John Milton Quotes on Life

John Milton quotes on life

12. The lazy leaden-stepping Hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace.

30. When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless.

36. In mirth that after no repenting draws.

67. Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free.

75. Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

79. Such strains as would have won the ear Of Pluto, to have quite set free His half-regained Eurydice. These delights, if thou canst give, Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.

104. Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.

105. Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.