John Milton Quotes About Contemplation

Quotes about: Contemplation

• Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse Contemplation She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the midday sun.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Dark, Moon

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

• In contemplation of created things, by steps we may ascend to God.

  John Milton

  Nature, May, Steps

  1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.511-12.

• Him that yon soars on golden wing, guiding the fiery-wheelèd throne, the Cherub Contemplation.

  John Milton

  Wings, Thrones, Golden

  John Milton (2013). “Samson Agonistes and Other Poems: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.20, Broadview Press

• That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

  John Milton

  Evil, Promise, Vices

  1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

• Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

  John Milton

  Nurse, Contemplation

• For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Eye, Grace

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 297

• Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Self, Wings

  'Comus' (1637) l. 373

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