Quotes by Milton, John

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

Milton, John on age and aging   

"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   

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

Milton, John on eyes   

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

Milton, John on fame   

"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown."

Milton, John on fame   

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

Milton, John on freedom   

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

Milton, John on freedom   

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

Milton, John on agreement   

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

Milton, John on alcohol and alcoholism   

"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   

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

Milton, John on home   

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

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

Milton, John on hypocrisy   

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

Milton, John on knowledge
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"A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns."

Milton, John on leadership   

"License they mean when they cry liberty."

Milton, John on liberty   

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

Milton, John on angels
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"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   

"Lords are lordliest in their wine."

Milton, John on aristocracy   

"Reason also is choice."

Milton, John on logic   

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

Milton, John on love   

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

Milton, John on melancholy   

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

Milton, John on mind
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"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."

Milton, John on music   

"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   

"Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train."

Milton, John on nuns   

"They also serve who only stand and wait."

Milton, John on patience
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"Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war."

Milton, John on peace   

"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 nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns."

Milton, John on philosophers and philosophy   

"Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge."

Milton, John on astronomy   

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world."

Milton, John on prayer
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"Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place."

Milton, John on prudence
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"What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair."

Milton, John on respectability
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"A short retirement urges a sweet return."

Milton, John on retirement
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"And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend."

Milton, John on revenge   

"Few sometimes may know, when thousands err."

Milton, John on right and rightness   

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"From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scanned by them who ought rather admire; or if they list to try conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens left to their disputes, perhaps to move his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they come to model heaven calculate the stars, how they will wield the mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive to save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, and epicycle, orb in orb."

Milton, John on science   

"But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon."

Milton, John on secrets
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"He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king"

Milton, John on self-control
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"Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right."

Milton, John on self-esteem
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