Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old John Milton quotes, John Milton sayings, and John Milton proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Their rising all at once was as the sound of thunder heard remote.John Milton
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The thunder, Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage, Perhaps hath spent his shafts, and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep.John Milton
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A tyrant is but like a king upon a stage, a man in a vizor, and acting the part of a king in a play: he is not really a king.John Milton
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.John Milton
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Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.John Milton
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Yet some there be that by due steps aspire to lay their just hands on that golden key that opes the palace of Eternity.John Milton
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Danger will wink on opportunity.John Milton
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In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchsJohn Milton
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Oh dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse Without all hope of day!John Milton
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.John Milton
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
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To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.John Milton
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The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.John Milton
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.John Milton
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Solitude sometimes is best society.John Milton
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No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities.John Milton
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.John Milton
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All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits
Of painful superstition and blind zeal,
Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find
Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.John Milton
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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
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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
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The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd the mother of mankind. John Milton
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Hell has no benefits, only torture.John Milton
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Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.John Milton
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A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.John Milton
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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.John Milton
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Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.John Milton
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A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.John Milton
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.John Milton
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Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men.John Milton
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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.John Milton