John Milton Quotes - Page 4

• John Milton / Poet

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

• John Milton / Poet

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

• John Milton / Poet

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

• John Milton / Poet

Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.

• John Milton / Poet

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

• John Milton / Poet

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

• John Milton / Poet

For so I created them free and free they must remain.

• John Milton / Poet

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

• John Milton / Poet

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

• John Milton / Poet

Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.

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There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

• John Milton / Poet

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

• John Milton / Poet

For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabb

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Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

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All seemed well pleased, all seemed, but were not all.

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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

• John Milton / Poet

The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kisst.

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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.

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Tower'd cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.

• John Milton / Poet

In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

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Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

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Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

• John Milton / Poet

The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.

• John Milton / Poet

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

• John Milton / Poet

Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.

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Those whom reason hath equalled, force hath made supreme

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Only this I know, That one celestial father gives to all.

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Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

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Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

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My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

• John Milton / Poet

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation.

• John Milton / Poet

What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

• John Milton / Poet

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

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Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

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O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

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Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

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Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

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Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

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Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

• John Milton / Poet

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.