John Milton Quotes

John Milton (56)

Birth:	9th December, 1608
Death:	8th November, 1674
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Civil Servant, Poet

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  Innocence, once lost, can never be regained. Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost.

  John Milton

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• Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  John Milton

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  The mind is it’s own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

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

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• Reason is also choice.

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• A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.

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• 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

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• Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

  John Milton

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• Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named, not good.

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• Laws can discover sin, but not remove it.

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• Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity, no savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer will dare to soil her virgin purity.

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• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo’s lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar’d sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.

  John Milton

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• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

  John Milton

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• Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm – Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.

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• The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

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• The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

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• Time, the subtle thief of youth.

  John Milton

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• So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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• The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

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• He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

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