Famous quotes containing the words milton hay, john milton, milton and/or hay:
“He weren’t no saint—but at Jedgment
I’d run my chance with Jim,
‘Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn’t shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,—
And went for it, thar an’ then:
And Christ ain’t a-goin’ to be too hard
On a man that died for me.”
—John Milton Hay (1838–1905)
“Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)
“But Madame Bad Luck soberly comes
And stays—no fancy has she for flitting;”
—John Milton Hay (1838–1905)