Authors:

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

John Milton Quotes - Page 5

All Quotes Age Ambition Arguing Art Atheism Beauty Bible Blindness Bliss Censorship Change Chaos Children Choices Christ Confusion Conscience Contemplation Country Dancing Darkness Death Design Devil Duty Earth Eating Envy Eternity Evil Experience Failing Faith Fame Fate Fear Fighting Flight Freedom Giving Glory God Gold Goodness Grace Gratitude Grief Happiness Harmony Hate Heart Heaven Hell Home Hope Horror House Husband Immortality Innocence Inspiration Inspirational Joy Judging Judgment Justice Knowledge Labour Language Laughter Learning Liberty Life Logic Losing Loss Love Lying Madness Marriage Memories Moon Morning Motivational Mountain Music Nature Office Opportunity Pain Passion Past Patience Peace Philosophy Pleasure Poetry Power Prayer Pride Purpose Reading Redemption Retirement Revenge Running Satan Science Scripture Shame Silence Silver Sin Singing Sleep Society Solitude Son Sorrow Soul Sports Spring Study Suffering Summer Temptation Thankfulness Time Train Truth Twilight Tyranny Understanding Victory Virtue Vision Waiting War Water Weakness Wealth Wine Winning Work Writing Youth

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.

Change, Fear, Fear Of Change

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 594

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.

Men, Vices, Action

John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.469

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

Law, Sin, Weak

John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

Believe and be confirmed.

Believe, Confirmation

JOHN MILTON (2008). “Paradise Lost (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.333, ReadHowYouWant.com

Solitude is sometimes best society.

Solitude, Sometimes

For what can war, but endless war, still breed?

War, Endless, Stills

'On the Lord General Fairfax at the Siege of Colchester' (written 1648, published 1694)

He that hath light within their own breast, may sit in the centre and enjoy bright day.

Light, May, Enjoy

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

Hope, Fear, Farewell

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 108

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

May, Wonder, Solemnity

'Comus' (1637) l. 745

Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.

Ocean, Dark, Infinity

All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.

Courage, Revenge, Hate

Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 105 (1667)

The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.

Darkness, Weakness, Martyr

Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.

Retirement, Ease, Noise

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1809). “The Poetical Works of John Milton,: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton,”, p.172

Tears such as angels weep.

Angel, Tears, Cry

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.23

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

Patience, Pain, Evil

1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.461-3.

For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

Freedom, Men, Skills

John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245

Lords are lordliest in their wine.

Wine, Society, Aristocracy

'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1418

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground?

Fall, Tears, Faults

John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.392, Mercer University Press

The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience.

Strong, Champion, Mind

1634 Comus, A Mask, l.209-11.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

Ignorance, Knowledge, Envy

John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

Life, Hate, Long

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 553

In naked beauty most adorned.

Sexy, Naked

Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

Excellence, Firsts

John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.500, Modern Library

Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.

Inspirational, Truth, Impossible

John Milton, James Augustus St. John, Charles Richard Sumner (1872). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.173

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

Men, Endurance, Sides

John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.327, Oxford University Press, USA

You May Also Like: