Memorable Milton Quotes

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"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
John Milton, On His Blindness
"To be weak is miserable, Doing or Suffering."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"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, Areopagitica
"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw."
John Milton, Sonnet XVI
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"Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"For so I created them free and free they must remain."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"What hath night to do with sleep?"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Give me above all liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"License they mean when they cry liberty."
John Milton
"Evil be thou my good."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summer's Rose."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Truth is strong next to the Almighty."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"For what can war, but endless war still breed?"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil."
John Milton, Lycidas
"Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with charm of earliest birds."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude sometimes is best society."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They dreamt not of a perishable home Who thus could build."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
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"Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the World, and all our woe, with loss of Eden, till one greater Man restore us."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"To know and to utter freely, according to conscience, is above all liberties."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"Darkness visible."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three and twentieth year!"
John Milton, Sonnet VII
"Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"A thousand liveries lackey to thy band, dropping the manna in thy gaping maw."
John Milton, Comus
"Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than war."
John Milton, To the Lord General Cromwell
"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"What is dark within me, illumine."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ large."
John Milton, On the New Forcers of Conscience Under the Long Pa
"Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They flee from me and I pursue them."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
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"Those thoughts, that wander through eternity."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"For what can war but endless war still breed?"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."
John Milton, Paradise Regained
"Licence they mean when they cry liberty."
John Milton, On the Detraction Which Followed Upon My Writing C
"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"I hate a pupil that will not call his master to an account for his own teachings."
John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
"For who knows not that Truth is strong, next to the Almighty."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Powers."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"What is strength without a double share of wisdom?"
John Milton, Samson Agonistes
"Darkness visible"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They cannot taste who always drink."
John Milton, Comus
"Yet not to be overcome."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Truth indeed came once into the world with her divine Master, and was a perfect shape most glorious to look on: but when he ascended, and his Apostles after him were laid asleep, then straight arose a wicked race of deceivers, who ... hewed her lovely form into a thousand pieces, and scattered them to the four winds."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!"
John Milton, Sonnet 7
"The proof of virtue is to try If thou canst reach to live above The pleasant valley of thy sense."
John Milton, Comus
"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"His words replete with guile into her heart too easy entrance won."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They themselves ordained their fall."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know?"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Truth is strong, next to the Almighty."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"The debt immense of endless gratitude."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They err who count it glorious to subdue by force, what may be won by judgement."
John Milton, Paradise Regained
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, / Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!"
John Milton, Sonnet 7
"A little onward lend thy guiding hand to these dark steps, a little further on!"
John Milton, Samson Agonistes
"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war."
John Milton, To the Lord General Cromwell
"What is dark within, illumine, what is low raise and support."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord envy them what he himself knows, since he persists to keep them in this state of mind, what is knowledge?"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in lieu shadowy horrors."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Thus with the year seasons return, but not to me returns day, or the sweet approach of even or morn."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They cannot change their minds, who are changed from good to bad; that argument shall not remove, with me, one step, nor what I hold for truth, shall be in doubt."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Into what Pit thou seest From what highth fal'n, so much the stronger prov'd He with his Thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire Arms?"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"But to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendor may escape, Than effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"They err who count it glorious to subdue by force, and force hath greatest right; though what though right be proved the strongest, in the mortal field?"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"O foul descent! that I who erst contended with Gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Solitude is sometimes best society."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three and twentieth year!"
John Milton, Sonnet VII
"Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They stumble that run fast."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They cannot be free themselves unless they be fitted, and besides, it is but justice, not to accept that from them which they themselves do not perform."
John Milton, The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates
"I hate a generalisation, especially one about all Americans."
John Milton
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
Alexander Pope (inspired by Milton)
"Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw."
John Milton, Sonnet XVI
"The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection."
John Milton, Of Education
"O shame to human life, nor smiles, nor joys, / Remain where thou art, or where thou dost advise!"
John Milton, Comus
"Truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies, nor stratagems, nor licensings to make her victorious; those are the shifts and the defenses that error uses against her power."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat."
John Milton, Areopagitica
"Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned than war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw."
John Milton, Sonnet XVI
"He who reigns within himself and rules Passions, desires, and fears is more a king."
John Milton, Paradise Regained
"To know And knowing worship God aright, is highest."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
John Milton
"One who with pain treads the hard road of duty; sees with joy the end when it gives him rest."
John Milton
"They cannot taste the fruit of divine knowledge but from the tree of disobedience."
John Milton
"I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, and virtue has no tongue to check her pride."
John Milton, Comus
"Be not too strict, but temper your ideals, So earth be your inheritance at last."
John Milton, Paradise Regained
"So farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear, Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good"
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great glory think, and endless fame attain"
John Milton, Paradise Regained
"Unrespited, unpitied, unprepared."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Yet not for those, nor what the Potent may do, but to free utterance of what I conceive."
John Milton, Areopagitica
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