John Milton Quotes
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401. “These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!”

— John Milton

402. “So many laws argues so many sins.”

— John Milton

403. “Dark with excessive bright.”

— John Milton

404. “And the earth self-balanced on her centre hung.”

— John Milton

405. “Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings.”

— John Milton

406. “And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.”

— John Milton

407. “Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.”

— John Milton

408. “Boast not of what thou would’st have done, but do.”

— John Milton

409. “Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.”

— John Milton

410. “Hell has no benefits, only torture.”

— John Milton

411. “For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.”

— John Milton

412. “Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck’d.”

— John Milton

413. “Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious days.”

— John Milton

414. “So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.”

— John Milton

415. “Now conscience wakes despair That slumber’d,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.”

— John Milton

416. “Wickedness is weakness.”

— John Milton

417. “And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.”

— John Milton

418. “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?”

— John Milton

419. “Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson’s learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.”

— John Milton

420. “Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.”

— John Milton

421. “And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom’s gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.”

— John Milton

422. “And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.”

— John Milton

423. “God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman’s happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.”

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

425. “From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer’s day; and with the setting sun Dropp’d from the Zenith like a falling star.”

— John Milton

426. “It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”

— John Milton

427. “The helmed Cherubim, And sworded Seraphim, Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display’d.”

— John Milton

428. “In God’s intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.”

— John Milton

429. “Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav’n.”

— John Milton

430. “Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.”

— John Milton

431. “And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse.”

— John Milton

432. “Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.”

— John Milton

433. “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

434. “How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother’s lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.”

— John Milton

435. “For evil news rides post, while good news baits.”

— John Milton

436. “Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.”

— John Milton

437. “Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason’s garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.”

— John Milton

438. “It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.”

— John Milton

439. “For so I created them free and free they must remain.”

— John Milton

440. “A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.”

— John Milton

441. “Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o’er true virginity.”

— John Milton

442. “The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flow’r, but not in this soil; Unknown, and like esteem’d, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon.”

— John Milton

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443. “But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth’s end, Where the bow’d welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon.”

— John Milton

444. “Wisdom’s self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.”

— John Milton

445. “Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav’st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?”

— John Milton

446. “Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.”

— John Milton

447. “Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.”

— John Milton

448. “For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”

— John Milton

449. “Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.”

— John Milton

450. “Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.”

— John Milton