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John Milton Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Freedom, Giving, Liberty

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34

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

Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 08”

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

Death, Keys, Eternity Of Life

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

Book, Reading, Library

Areopagitica (1644)

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

Freedom, Law, Democracy

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

Hate, Winning, Hands

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

May, Sometimes, Knows

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.466

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

Jealousy, Negative, Emotion

This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

Unwise, Servitude

John Milton, David Masson (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.277

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

Fall, Lucifer, Arise

John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.43

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Peace, Writing, Learning

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

Love, Chocolate, Eating

When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

Country, Skills, People

John Milton, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1856). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.533

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

Home, Church, World

John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.59, Courier Dover Publications

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

Time, Morning, Children

Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 220 (1671) SeeWilliamWordsworth 12

Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

Power, Light, Long

Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

Nurse, Contemplation

Luck is the residue of design.

Life, Witty, War

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

Book, Censorship, Ifs

John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.65

There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

Reading, Writing, Men

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Able, Bears, Blind

John Milton, George Burnett (1809). “The Prose Works of John Milton: Tenure of the magistrate (continued)”, p.357

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

Spiritual, Communication, Goodness

John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.147

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

Hate, Pride, Vices

John Milton (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.144

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

Lonely, Stars, Lying

'Comus' (1637) l. 195

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

War, Conquer, Virtue

John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.255

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