John Milton Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• They also serve who only stand and wait.

  John Milton

  Patience, Waiting, Patience And Waiting

  "When I consider how my light is spent" l. 14 (1673)

• O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy: As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enough besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.

  John Milton

  War, Night, Men

  John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

• 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.

  John Milton

  Ocean, Men, Land

  "When I consider how my light is spent" l. 14 (1673)

• This horror will grow mild, this darkness light; Besides what hope the never-ending flight Of future days may bring, what chance, what change Worth waiting--since our present lot appears For happy though but ill, for ill not worst, If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

  John Milton

  Light, Waiting, Darkness

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.47

• Zeal and duty are not slow
  But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.

  John Milton

  Opportunity, Waiting, Duty

  'Paradise Regained' (1671) bk. 3, l. 173

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