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John Milton Quotes - Page 6

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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

Arguing, Fame, Paradise Lost Book 9

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.297

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

Hope, Joy, Paradise Lost Book 9

John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.179

The Saviour who flitted before the patriarchs through the fog of the old dispensation, and who spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, articulate but unseen, is the same Saviour who, on the open heights of the Gospel, and in the abundant daylight of this New Testament, speaks to us. Still all along it is the same Jesus, and that Bible is from beginning to end all of it, the word of Christ.

Bible, Jesus, Father

Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears, That show no end but death, and have the power, Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, Destruction with destruction to destroy.

Hands, Office, Way

1665 Eve. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.10, l.1001-6.

And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

Bogs, Bitter, Fierce

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 598

Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Men, Good Man, Atheism

'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

A bevy of fair women.

Women, Men Women, Fairs

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.382

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

Men, Evil, Good And Evil

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

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

Virtue, Chimes, Teach

'Comus' (1637) l. 1019

A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.

Paradise, Fool, Broads

John Milton (1853). “The Paradise lost”, p.137

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

Six, World, Magnificent

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 7, l. 563

The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and committed to them in trust from the People, to the Common good of them all, in whom the power yet remaines fundamentally, and cannot be takn from them, without a violation of thir natural birthright.

Kings, People, Derivatives

John Milton (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton: The tenure of kings and magistrates ; Areopagitica ; Tracts on the Commonwealth ; Observations on Ormond's peace ; Letters of States, etc. ; Brief notes on Dr. Griffith's sermon ; Of Reformation in England ; Of prelatical episcopacy ; /The reason of Church government urged against prelacy of true religion, heresy, schism, toleration ; Of civil power in ecclesiastical causes”, p.11

He scarce had ceased when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore; his ponderous shield Ethereal temper, massy, large and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fésolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe.

Moving, Science, Artist

John Milton (1855). “The complete poetical works of John Milton, with life”, p.10

Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds.

Sweet, Morning, Bird

Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 639 (1667)

Praise from an enemy smells of craft.

Smell, Enemy, Crafts

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

Solitude, Sometimes

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.

Running, Race, Dust

Areopagitica (1644)

In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

Nature, Spring, Air

'Of Education' (1644) 'Their Exercise'

My sentence is for open war.

War, Sentences

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. 51

Antichrist is Mammon's son.

Son, Antichrist

John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.402

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

Contentment, Enjoy, Enjoyment

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 364

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

Life, Patience, Integrity

John Milton, Charles Symmons (1806). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author”, p.209

Ink is the blood of the printing-press.

Blood, Ink, Printing

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

Steps, Hell

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.235

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

Garden, Two, Joy

1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.65-9.

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