Top 100 Quotes About John Milton
#1. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. - John Milton, Paradise Lost
Lisa Unger
#2. Or if they list to try
Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens
Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move
His laughter at their quaint opinions wide.
John Milton, Paradise Lost viii 75-78
John Milton
#3. The way to achieve your goals is step by step, you just need to build enough track, to be ahead of the train." ~ John Milton Lawrence
John Milton Lawrence
#4. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST
Blake Crouch
#5. Poets writing in English have long learned to mourn from classical precedents. They have drawn on a tradition of pastoral elegies, which incorporate the dead into the cycles of nature, that runs from Theocritus' Idylls to John Milton's 'Lycidas' and Percy Shelley's 'Adonais.'
Susan Stewart
#6. John Milton almost single-handedly created the identity of the writer as political activist.
Anna Beer
#7. The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that she had absorbed Milton's works enough to feel comfortable quoting them from memory.
David McCullough
#8. In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,
Till thou return unto the ground; for thou
Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth,
For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
John Milton
#9. And to thy husband's will
Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.
John Milton
#10. Consult ... /what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.
John Milton
#11. Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.
John Milton
#12. Hope allows us to bid farewell to fear.
John Milton
#13. None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.
John Milton
#16. For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
John Milton
#17. Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
John Milton
#19. Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.
John Milton
#20. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
John Milton
#21. Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
John Milton
#22. Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?
John Milton
#23. But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.
John Milton
#24. A death-like sleep,
A gentle wafting to immortal life.
John Milton
#26. It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.
John Milton
#27. Sabrina fair
Listen where thou art sitting
Under the glassie, cool, translucent wave,
In twisted braids of Lillies knitting
The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair,
Listen for dear honour's sake,
Goddess of the silver lake,
Listen and save.
John Milton
#28. The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.
John Milton
#29. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn.
John Milton
#30. Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.
John Milton
#31. For the air of youth,
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reign
A melancholy damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume
The balm of life.
John Milton
#32. Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.
John Milton
#35. Th' ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
John Milton
#36. Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
John Milton
#37. What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
John Milton
#38. Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?
John Milton
#39. If we think to regulat Printing, thereby to rectifie manners, we must regulat all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightfull to Man.
John Milton
#40. Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
John Milton
#41. The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).
John Milton
#42. Laws can discover sin, but not remove it
John Milton
#43. Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
John Milton
#44. Such I created all th' Ethereal Powers And Spirits, both them who stood & them who faild; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not
John Milton
#46. And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
John Milton
#47. Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak.
John Ruskin
#48. [Censors] rake through the entrails of many an old good author, with a violation worse than any could be offered to his tomb.
John Milton
#49. Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time.
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
John Milton
#50. And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
John Milton
#51. Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.
John Milton
#52. And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.
John Milton
#54. What though the field be lost?
All is not Lost; the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And the courage never to submit or yeild.
John Milton
#56. They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet wanting to the body of Truth.
John Milton
#57. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.
John Milton
#58. The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.
John Milton
#59. If there be any difference among professed believers as to the sense of Scripture, it is their duty to tolerate such difference in each other, until God shall have revealed the truth to all.
John Milton
#60. The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow'r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.
John Milton
#61. Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
John Milton
#62. Who can in reason then or right assume monarchy over such as live by right his equals, if in power or splendor less, in freedom equal?
John Milton
#63. In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
John Milton
#64. A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.
John Milton
#65. Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.
John Milton
#67. What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
John Milton
#68. There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
John Milton
#69. The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
John Milton
#70. Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.
John Milton
#71. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.
John Milton
#72. In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
John Milton
#73. For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.
John Milton
#74. No man [ ... ] can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.
John Milton
#75. Solitude is sometimes the best society.
John Milton
#76. Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.
Matthew Pearl
#77. If it come to prohibiting, there is aught more likely to be prohibited than truth itself.
John Milton
#78. O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams
That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
John Milton
#79. I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war.
John Milton
#80. With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.
John Milton
#81. The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
John Milton
#82. Thither he bent his way, determined there
to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade
high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
That opened in the midst a woody scene;
Nature's own work it seemed, Nature-taught Art
John Milton
#83. This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
John Milton
#84. Ink is the blood of the printing-press.
John Milton
#85. Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.
John Milton
#86. From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star.
John Milton
#87. What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy, Save what is in destroying, other joy To me is lost. Then
John Milton
#88. Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
John Milton
#89. We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.
John Milton
#90. He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
John Milton
#91. More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.
John Milton
#92. His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
John Milton
#93. Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, ...
John Milton
#94. Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
John Milton
#96. You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.
John Milton
#97. 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.
John Milton
#98. He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
John Milton
#99. What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
John Milton
#100. A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses
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