Famous Quotes | Ah, why should all...
Ah, why should all mankind
For one man’s fault thus guiltless be condemned,
If guiltless? But from me what can proceed,
But all corrupt, both mind and will depraved,
Not to do only, but to will the same
With me? How can they then acquitted stand
In sight of God? Him, after all disputes,
Forced I absolve. All my evasions vain
And reasonings, though through mazes, lead me still
But to my own conviction: first and last
On me, me only, as the source and spring
Of all corruption, all the blame lights due;
So might the wrath!
- John Milton
Attribution: John Milton (1608–1674), British poet. Paradise Lost (l. Bk. X, l. 822–834). TOF. The Complete Poetry of John Milton. John T. Shawcross, ed. (1963, rev. ed. 1971) Doubleday.
Categories: Anger, Death, Sin
