John Milton Law Quotations

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

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.

The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.

Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Our reason is our law.

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

Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

Here the great art lies, to discern in what the law is to be to restraint and punishment, and in what things persuasion only is to work.

So many laws argues so many sins.

Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source / Of human offspring, sole propriety / In Paradise of all things common else.

God so commanded, and left that command/ Sole daughter of his voice; the rest we live / Law to ourselves, our reason is our law.

God is thy law, thou mine.

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to tier aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand.

If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them