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John Milton Quotes - Page 3

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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

Basketball, Confidence, Inspiration

To live a life half dead, a living death.

Half

Samson Agonistes l. 100 (1671)

It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

Bible, Men, Hands

John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.325

But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

Peace, Night, Light

1629 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 3.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

Done, Boast

John Milton (1872). “English Poems”, p.237

Reason is also choice.

Choices, Reason

John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.109, BookCaps Study Guides

Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

Mind, Lasts, Recognition

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

Love, Romantic, Eye

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.241

Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

Soul, Half, Claims

John Milton, “Paradise Lost, Book IV, [The Argument]”

The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

Spiritual, Freedom, Men

John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.133

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Fate, Chance, Approach

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 7, l. 172

Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

Mind, Of My Mind

1634 Comus, A Mask, l.663-5.

Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

Faithful, Suffering, Victory

John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.489, Mercer University Press

Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate

Hate

John Milton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Milton (Illustrated)”, p.228, Delphi Classics

For 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.

Life, Book, Soul

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

Evil on itself shall back recoil.

Evil, Recoil

John Milton (1829). “Paradise Lost: Paradise Regained”

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

Evil, Promise, Vices

1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

Dark with excessive bright.

Dark, Darkness

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 380

Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony.

Ties, Soul, Harmony

John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.413

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

Nature, Son

John Milton (1853). “The Poetical works”, p.577

Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

Thinking, Goodness, Ill

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.227

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse

Loss, Men, Eden

Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 1 (1667)

God made thee perfect, not immutable.

Perfect, Made, Thee

1665 Raphael to Adam. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.5, l.524.

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

Truth, Tolerance, Religion

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

Serving Others

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 538

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