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John Milton Quotes about Weakness

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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

John Milton
Suffering, Weakness, Miserable
'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 157

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

John Milton
Darkness, Weakness, Martyr

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

John Milton
Men, Weakness, Wickedness
John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.125

Wickedness is weakness.

John Milton
Weakness, Wickedness
John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

John Milton
Tears, Weakness, Noble
'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1721

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