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.'
A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.John Milton
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If you let slip time, like a neglected rose it withers on the stalk with languished head.John Milton
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Here may we reign secure, and in my choice to reign is worth ambition, though in Hell. Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.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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Sweetest echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.John Milton
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Time is the subtle thief of youth.John Milton
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.John Milton
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Who aspires must down as low, As high he soar'd.John Milton
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In solitude What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying what contentment find?John Milton
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When 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
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Now the bright morning star, day’s harbinger, / Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her / The flowery May, who from her green lap throws / The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.John Milton
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Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire / Mirth and youth and warm desire ; / Woods and groves are of thy dressing, / Hill and vale doth boast thy blessing.John Milton
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Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.John Milton
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Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.John Milton
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For neither man nor angel can discern / Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks / Invisible, except to God alone.John Milton
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Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing / Such notes are warbled to the string / Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.John Milton
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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.John Milton
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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, / Confusion worse confounded. John Milton
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Every cloud has a silver lining.John Milton
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.John Milton
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Then to the well-trod stage anon, / If Jonson's learned sock be on, / Or sweetest Shakespeare fancy child, / Warble his native wood-notes wild. John Milton
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad.John Milton
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It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.John Milton
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When I consider how my light is spent, / E're half my days, in this dark world and wide, / And that one talent which is death to hide / Lodged with me useless.John Milton
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They who have put out the people's eyes, reproach them of their blindness.John Milton
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The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day.John Milton
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Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.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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Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise that last infirmity of noble mind, to scorn delights, and live laborious days.John Milton
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Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With the charm of earliest birds.John Milton