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John Milton Quotes | Quotes said by John Milton

  • John Milton Quote #1

    ...know, that so far to distrust' the judgement and the honesty of one who hath but a common repute in Learning and never yet offended, as not to count him fit to print his mind without a tutor and examiner lest he should drop a schism or something of corruption, is the greatest displeasure and indignity to a free and knowing spirit that can be put upon him.

  • John Milton Quote #2

    ...So little knows
    Any but God alone to value right
    The good before him but perverts best things
    To worst abuse or to their meanest use.

  • John Milton Quote #3

    A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,
    And pavement stars—as starts to thee appear
    Soon in the galaxy, that milky way
    Which mightly as a circling zone thou seest
    Powder'd wiht stars.

  • John Milton Quote #4

    A dungeon horrible, on all sides round,
    As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames
    No light; but rather darkness visible
    Served only to discover sights of woe

  • John Milton Quote #5

    A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

  • John Milton Quote #6

    A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

  • John Milton Quote #7

    All is best, though we oft doubt, what the unsearchable dispose, of highest wisdom brings about.

  • John Milton Quote #8

    And looks commercing with the skies,
    Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

  • John Milton Quote #9

    And now without redemption all mankind
    Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell
    By doom severe, had not the Son of God,
    In whom the fullness dwells of love divine,
    His dearest mediation thus renewed.
    'Father, Thy word is passed, man shall find grace;
    And shall grace not find means, that finds her way,
    The speediest of Thy winged messengers,
    To visit all Thy creatures, and to all
    Comes unprevented, unimplored, unsought,
    Happy for man, so coming; he her aid
    Can never seek, once dead in sins and lost;
    Atonement for himself or offering meet,
    Indebted and undone, hath none to bring:
    Behold Me then, Me for him, life for life
    I offer, on Me let Thine anger fall;
    Account Me man; I for his sake will leave
    Thy bosom, and this glory next to Thee
    Freely put off, and for him lastly die
    Well pleased, on Me let death wreak all his rage;
    Under his gloomy power I shall not long
    Lie vanquished; Thou hast given Me to possess
    Life in Myself forever, by Thee I live,
    Though now to death I yield, and am his due
    All that of Me can die, yet that debt paid,
    Thou wilt not leave Me in the loathsome grave
    His prey, nor suffer My unspotted soul
    Forever with corruption there to dwell;
    But I shall rise victorious, and subdue
    My vanquisher, spoiled of his vaunted spoil;
    Death his death's wound shall then receive, and stoop
    Inglorious, of his mortal sting disarmed.

  • John Milton Quote #10

    And of the sixth day yet remained
    There wanted yet the master work, the end
    Of all yet done: a creature who not prone
    And brute as other creatures but endued
    With sanctity of reason might erect
    His stature and, upright with front serene,
    Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence
    Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven,
    But grateful to acknowledge whence his good
    Descends, thither with heart and voice and eyes
    Directed in devotion to adore
    And worship God supreme who made him chief
    Of all His works.

  • John Milton Quote #11

    And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
    That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

  • John Milton Quote #12

    And what doe they tell us vainly of new opinions, when this very opinion of theirs, that none must be heard but whom they like, is the worst and newest opinion of all others, and is the chief cause why sects and schisms doe so much abound and true knowledge is kept at distance from us ; besides yet a greater danger which is in it.

  • John Milton Quote #13

    Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

  • John Milton Quote #14

    Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
    Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
    His great command!

  • John Milton Quote #15

    Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

  • John Milton Quote #16

    Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  • John Milton Quote #17

    But first whom shall we send
    In search of this new world, whom shall we find
    Sufficient? Who shall tempt, with wand'ring feet
    The dark unbottomed infinite abyss
    And through the palpable obscure find out
    His uncouth way, or spread his aery flight
    Upborne with indefatigable wings
    Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive
    The happy isle?

  • John Milton Quote #18

    But now at last the sacred influence
    Of light appears, and rom the walls of Heav'n
    Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night
    A glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins
    her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire
    As from her outmost works a broken foe
    With tumult less and with less hostile din,

  • John Milton Quote #19

    But say I could repent and could obtaine
    By Act of Grace my former state: how soon
    would higth recal high thoughts; how soon unsay
    what feign'd submission swore: ease would recant
    vows made in pain, as violent and void.
    For never can true reconcilement grow
    where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep:
    which would but lead me to a worse relapse
    and heavier fall: so should I purchase cleave
    short intermission bought with double smart:
    This knows my punisher; therefore as far
    from granting here, as I from begging peace:
    All hope excluded thus, behold in stead
    of us out-cast, exil'd, his new delight,
    Mankind created, and for his this World.
    So farewell Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear,
    Farewel Remorse: all Good to me is lost.

  • John Milton Quote #20

    But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt,
    And by thir vices brought to servitude,
    Than to love Bondage more than Liberty,
    Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty;

  • John Milton Quote #21

    Chaos and ancient Night, I come no spy,
    With purpose to explore or to disturb
    The secrets of your realm, but by constraint
    Wand'Ring this darksome desert, as my way
    Lies through your spacious empire up to light,
    Alone, and without guide, half lost, I seek
    What readiest path leads where your gloomy bounds
    Confine with Heav'n; or if som other place
    From your Dominion won, th' Ethereal King
    Possesses lately, thither to arrive
    I travel this profound, direct my course;
    Directed no mean recompence it brings
    To your behoof, if I that Region lost,
    All usurpation then expelled, reduce
    To her original darkness and your sway
    (Which is my present journey) and once more
    Erect the Standard there of ancient Night;
    Yours be th' advantage all, mine the revenge.
    970-987

  • John Milton Quote #22

    Come let us haste, the stars grow high,
    But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

  • John Milton Quote #23

    Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

  • John Milton Quote #24

    Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  • John Milton Quote #25

    Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is not lost in loss itself.

  • John Milton Quote #26

    Every cloud has a silver lining

  • John Milton Quote #27

    Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear

  • John Milton Quote #28

    Father, I do acknowledge and confess
    That I this honor, I this pomp have brought
    To Dagon, and advanc’d his praises high
    among the Heathen round; to God have brought
    Dishonor, obloquy, and op’d the mouths
    Of Idolists, and Atheists
    […]The anguish of my Soul, that suffers not
    Mine eye to harbor sleep, or thoughts to rest.
    This only hope relieves me, that the strife
    With mee hath end.

  • John Milton Quote #29

    For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  • John Milton Quote #30

    For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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