Quotes by John Milton

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

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  • The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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  • These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.
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  • They also serve who only stand and wait.
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  • This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.
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  • 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.
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  • Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.
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  • To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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  • Virtue that wavers is not virtue.
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  • What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
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  • What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
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  • When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.
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  • Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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  • Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
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  • Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
    Paradise lost (1667)
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  • With thee conversing I forget all time.
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