JOHN MILTON Quotes

"Accuse not Nature,
she hath done her part;
do thou but thine."
~John Milton (1608-1674)

"Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them." ~John Milton (1608-1674)

"Be strong, live happy, and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey." ~John Milton

"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

"Grace was in all her steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In every gesture dignity and love." ~John Milton

"Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world." ~John Milton

"He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." ~John Milton

"I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war." ~John Milton (1608-1674)

“Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.” ~John Milton on Praise

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake." ~John Milton, Renowned English Poet (1608-1674)

"None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under tyrants." ~John Milton

“So many laws argues so many sins.” ~John Milton

"Solitude is the perfect society." ~John Milton 

"Some cursed fraud Of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, And me with thee hath ruined." ~John Milton on Fraud

"The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him" ~John Milton

"The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." ~John Milton (1606-1674)

"The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving." ~John Milton on Oracle

"They also serve who only stand and wait." ~John Milton

"Those who serve only also stand and wait." ~John Milton

"Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold." ~John Milton

"To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable." ~John Milton (1608-1674)

"Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offense returning, to regain Love once possess'd." ~John Milton

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"So when the sun in bed,
Curtain’d with cloudy red,
Pillows his chin upon an orient wave."
~John Milton

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“The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour,
Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.”
~John Milton on Eagles

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"When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking
Some green leaf to rest upon;
What would not I give to wander
Where my old companions dwell?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!"
~John Milton, Paradise Lost

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“Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.”
~John Milton on Light

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