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John Milton Quotes - Page 24

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Courage never to submit of yield.

Courage never to submit of yield.

Courage, Yield, Submit

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.

Love, Sweet, Soul

John Milton, Thomas Keightley (1859). “Poems”, p.55

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.

Freedom, Stupid, Reality

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

We should be wary what persecution we raise against the living labors of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man, preserved and stored up in books, since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom; and if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at the ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself; slays an immortality rather than a life.

Book, Men, Essence

John Milton (1976). “The Portable Milton”, p.126, Penguin

Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

Sweet, Self, Wings

'Comus' (1637) l. 373

None But such as are good men can give good things, And that which is not good, is not delicious To a well-govern'd and wise appetite.

Wise, Men, Giving

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “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.139

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

Peace, Agreement, Sloth

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 226

Evil, be thou my good.

Evil

Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 110 (1667)

Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.

Hope, Heart, Hands

John Milton (1752). “Paradise Regain'd. A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton”, p.534

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

Peace, Calm, Quiet

'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 45

God, who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through their habitations walks To mark their doings.

God, Men, Unseen

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “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.522

He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity.

Fate, Strict, Left

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.351

But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus, bound for th' isles Of Javan or Gadire, With all her bravery on, and tackle trim, Sails fill'd, and streamers waving, Courted by all the winds that hold them play, An amber scent of odorous perfume Her harbinger?

Sex, Gay, Wind

John Milton (1832). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.34

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

Book, Evil, Meat

John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.173

The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.

Summer, Retirement, Plato

Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 240 (1671)

If the will, which in the law of our nature, were withdrawn from our memory, fancy, understanding, and reason, no other hell could equal, for a spiritual being, what we should then feel from the anarchy of our powers. It would be conscious madness,--a horrid thought!

Spiritual, Memories, Law

Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

Knights, Forests, Fairy

John Milton, Charles Dexter CLEVELAND (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: with a Life of the Author; Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory ... and a Verbal Index. Edited by C. D. Cleveland”, p.323

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

Math, Umpires, Decision

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 907

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

Way, Paradise, Hell

Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)

How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence through the empty-vaulted night, At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled!

Fall, Night, Wings

1634 Comus, A Mask, l.248-51.

The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

Dark, Moon, Night

'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 86

From haunted spring and dale Edg'd with poplar pale The parting genius is with sighing sent.

Spring, Genius, Pale

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.21

Well observe The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st.

Too Much, Taught, Drink

John Milton (2003). “The Complete Poems and Major Prose”, p.445, Hackett Publishing

This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

Patience, Stars, Sea

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

Thinking, Land, Understanding

John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.112

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