"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!"

Milton, John on Age and Aging
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"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."

Milton, John on Evil
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness."

Milton, John on Eyes
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil."

Milton, John on Fame
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown."

Milton, John on Fame
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license."

Milton, John on Freedom
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

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

Milton, John on Freedom of Speech
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace."

Milton, John on Agreement
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine."

Milton, John on Alcohol and Alcoholism
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy."

Milton, John on Heresy
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Our country is where ever we are well off."

Milton, John on Home
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Where no hope is left, is left no fear."

Milton, John on Hope
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 3 fans >>

"For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone."

Milton, John on Hypocrisy
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

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

Milton, John on Knowledge
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns."

Milton, John on Leaders and Leadership
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"License they mean when they cry liberty."

Milton, John on Liberty
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake."

Milton, John on Angels
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 2 fans >>

"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."

Milton, John on Architecture
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Lords are lordliest in their wine."

Milton, John on Aristocracy
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Reason also is choice."

Milton, John on Logic
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss."

Milton, John on Lovers
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!"

Milton, John on Melancholy
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 1 fans >>

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."

Milton, John on Mind
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 6 fans >>

"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."

Milton, John on Music
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>

"Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam."

Milton, John on Nations
Talk about quote · Email to friend · 0 fans >>