John Milton Berühmte Zitate
„Besser ist es, in der Hölle zu herrschen, als im Himmel dienen.“
Johann Milton's verlornes Paradies. Aus dem Englischen neu übersetzt von Friedrich Wilhelm Bruckbräu. München 1828. S. 38 books.google.de http://books.google.de/books?id=6TE_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA38
Original engl.: "Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n." - Paradise Lost, Book 1 (1667) en.wikisource.org http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1667)/Book_I
Aeropagitica (1644)
"Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye." - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Areopagitica
John Milton: Zitate auf Englisch
“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”
Hymn, stanza 4, line 53
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”
Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)
“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”
Quelle: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39
“It was the winter wild
While the Heav'n-born child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”
Hymn, stanza 1, line 29
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)
To the Lady Margaret Ley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
On His Blindness (1652)
Compare "Patience is also a form of action." Attributed to Auguste Rodin in: Leonard William Doob (1990). Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection. p. 124
