Quotes by John Milton with solitude

John Milton

John Milton

English poet, polemicist and man of letters

Lived from: 1608 - 1674

Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 9 december 1608 Died: 8 november 1674

  • But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
  • No man can love freedom heartily, but good men; tbc rest lovc not freedom, but licence.
  • Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
  • How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.
  • Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
  • And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
  • A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
  • A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.
  • Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
  • Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
  • These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
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  • For solitude sometimes is best society,
    And short retirement urges sweet return.
    Paradise lost (1667) IX, 249
    ― John Milton
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