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John Milton Quotes about Virtue

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The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

John Milton
War, Conquer, Virtue
John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.255

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

John Milton
Virtue, Circumstances, Prudence

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

John Milton
Virtue
John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.63

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

John Milton
Men, Virtue, Admire
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.42

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.

John Milton
Virtue, Chimes, Teach
'Comus' (1637) l. 1019

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

John Milton
Passion, Ingredients, Virtue
1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

John Milton
Virtue, Chimes, Stoops
1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1017-22.

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

John Milton
Would Be, Virtue, Conscience
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.309

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

John Milton
Growth, Virtue, Vicious
John Milton (1859). “The prose works of John Milton”, p.177

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

John Milton
Faith, Helping, Virtue
John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.65

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