“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”
More from John Milton
“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“But he, though blind of sight, Despised, and thought extinguished quite, With inward eyes…”
“My rising is thy fall.”