John Milton Quotes about Love

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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

John Milton

Love, Inspirational, Knowledge

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

John Milton

Love, Freedom, Men

The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

John Milton

Love, Chocolate, Eating

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

John Milton

Love, Romantic, Eye

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

So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

John Milton

Love, Life, Boyfriend

Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.76

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

John Milton

Love, Golden Days, Joy

John Milton (1801). “Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711”, p.77

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

John Milton

Love, Two, Eden

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 505

Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

John Milton

Love, Inspirational, Life

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

License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.

John Milton

Love, Wise, Mean

"I did but prompt the age" l. 11 (1673)

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.

John Milton

Love, Sweet, Soul

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

It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

John Milton

Love, Sorry, Home

'Comus' (1637) l. 745