Quotes on history

“Of Man’s First Disobedience, and the fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing, Heav’nly Muse.”

John Milton
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“Boast not of what thou would’st have done, but do What then thou would’st.”

John Milton
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“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.”

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

John Milton
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“With thee conversing I forget all time.”

John Milton
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“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.”

John Milton
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“What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?”

John Milton
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“Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy.”

John Milton
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“All hell broke loose.”

John Milton
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“Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone.”

John Milton
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