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.

Quote by John Milton

Topics: Death Quotes

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun...

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun...

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him...

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him...

To live a life half-dead, a living death.

To live a life half-dead, a living death.

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel...

Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel...

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at...

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at...

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail / Or knock the breast, no weakness,...

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail / Or knock the breast, no weakness,...

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows...

A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows...

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,...

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience,...

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it...

In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it...

Jealousy is the injured lover's hell

Jealousy is the injured lover's hell

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a...

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest deep a...

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally...

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally...

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring...

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring...

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge,...

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more / Is woman's happiest knowledge,...

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do...

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do...

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.

Revenge has no more quenching effect on emotions than salt water has on thirst.