Frases de John Milton

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“Denme la libertad para saber, pensar, creer y actuar libremente de acuerdo con la conciencia, sobre todas las demás libertades.”

“El que se alaba a sí mismo siempre encuentra quien se ría de él, lo cual no es cómico sino trágico.”

“Es mejor reinar en el infierno que servir en el cielo.”

“Lo que no me mata me hace más fuerte.”

“Dios proclama la paz, y ellos viven, no obstante, dominados por el odio y la enemistad y en perpetua lucha; se mueven crueles guerras y devastan la tierra para destruirse unos a otros, como si no tuvieran, y en esto deberían cifrar su unión, sobrados enemigos en el infierno que día y noche conspiran para su ruina.”

“A veces la soledad es la mejor compañía.”

“¿Qué importa el sitio donde yo resida, si soy siempre el mismo y el que debo ser […] vale más reinar en el infierno que servir en el cielo.”

“La tierra contiene en sí misma el mal y su remedio.”

“La suerte es el residuo de los designios.”

“Un buen libro es preciosa sangre de vida de un espíritu magistral, embalsamado y atesorado con el propósito de dar vida más allá de la vida.”

“A aquellos que han apagado los ojos del pueblo, reprochadles su ceguera.”

“«Empresa más fácil podemos acometer. Una región hay, si no miente antigua y profética tradición del cielo, hay un mundo, dichosa mansión de un ser nuevo llamado Hombre, que por este tiempo ha debido ser criado semejante a nosotros, inferior en poderío y excelencia, pero más favorecido del Hacedor supremo.”

“Servimos libremente Porque amamos libremente, como en nuestra voluntad de Amar o no; en esto nos paramos o caemos.”

“Cuida el saber escrito ya que destruir un libro es casi como matar a un hombre: quien mata a un hombre, mata a un ser de razón, pero quien destruye un libro, mata a la razón humana.”

“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.”

“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' abhorrèd shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.”

“And add to these retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.”

“In mirth that after no repenting draws.”

“And the jocund rebecks sound
To many a youth, and many a maid,
Dancing in the checkered shade.
And young and old come forth to play
On a sunshine holiday.”

“Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench
Of British Themis, with no mean applause
Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws,
Which others at their Bar so often wrench”

“Peace hath her victories
No less renowned than war.”

“The gay motes that people the sunbeams.”

“That would have made Quintilian stare and gasp.”

“Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.”

“Oft, on a plat of rising ground,
I hear the far-off curfew sound
Over some wide-watered shore,
Swinging low with sullen roar.”

“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.”

“For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains,
And disapproves that care, though wise in show,
That with superfluous burden loads the day,
And, when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.”

“Hide me from day's garish eye,
While the bee with honied thigh,
That at her flowery work doth sing,
And the waters murmuring
With such consort as they keep,
Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.”

“Behold the kings of the Earth how they oppress
Thy chosen, to what highth thir pow'r unjust
They have exalted, and behind them cast
All fear of thee, arise and vindicate
Thy Glory, free thy people from thir yoke”

“License they mean when they cry, Liberty!
For who loves that must first be wise and good.”

“To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”

“Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”

“He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,
With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.”

“It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.”
Non est miserum esse caecum, miserum est caecitatem non posse ferre.

“Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees.”

“But O the heavy change, now thou art gone,
Now thou art gone and never must return!”

“At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue:
Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”

“Untwisting all the chains that tie
The hidden soul of harmony.”

“What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice,
Of Attic taste?”

“The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.”

“His words … like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.”

“Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!”

“For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.”