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John Milton Quotes - Page 7

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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

Hypocrite, Angel, Men

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 682

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

Patience, Steel, Stubborn

John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122

In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.

Intention, Ends, Conversation

John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1848). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.187

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

Strong, Errors, Atheism

Seas wept from our deep sorrows.

Sea, Sorrow, Deep Sorrow

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.38

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.

Fall, Voice, Evil

John Milton (1757). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.8

Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.

Stronger, Great Things, Earnest

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

Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

Sleep, Silence, Midnight

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.157

Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.

Death, Lying, Sunset

My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

Wise, Heart, Perfect

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.99

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

Mother, Art, Eye

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

And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

Prayer, Cry, Incessant

John Milton (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: Memoir of Milton. Paradise lost”, p.310

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

Heaven, Looks, Gorgeous

A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.

Shame, Cynicism, Cynic

David Garrick, Arthur Murphy, Edward Ravenscroft, William Shakespeare, Henry Fielding (1792). “A Collection of the Most Esteemed Farces and Entertainments Performed on the British Stage”, p.224

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

Hope, Peace, Doleful

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

Gratitude, Grateful, Mind

John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.238

Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage./ Far off from these a slow and silent stream,/ Lethe the River of Oblivion rolls/ Her wat'ry Labyrinth whereof who drinks,/ Forthwith his former state and being forgets,/ Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

Pain, Hate, Grief

John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 02”

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

Passion, Ingredients, Virtue

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

how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

Hate, Self, Liberty

John Milton (2012). “Paradise Lost: Parallel Prose Edition”, p.66, Broadview Press

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

Cells, Inspire, Pale

John Milton (1844). “I. Prose Works: Poetical works. II.”

No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.

Real, Accomplishment, Technique

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Character, Past, Men

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

Difficulty, Hard, Labour

John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.170

I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

Ivy, Watches, Flaunting

John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.207, Pearson Education

Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.

Wrath, Heaven, Suffering

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

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