John Milton

John MiltonJohn Milton (1608-1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.

John Milton Quotes

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..

—John Milton

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

Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear.

—John Milton

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

—John Milton

Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

—John Milton

What is dark within me, illumine.

—John Milton

What in me is dark illumine.

—John Milton

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

—John Milton

But he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.

—John Milton

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

Luck is the residue of design.

—John Milton

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

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

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Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven, Affecting Godhead, and so losing all.

—John Milton

They also serve who only stand and wait.

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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

—John Milton

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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I alone seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent from all: my sect thou seest, now learn too late how few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

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Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.

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What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

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Solitude sometimes is best society.

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I formd them free, and free they must remain.

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What hath night to do with sleep?

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Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

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To be weak is miserable, doing or suffering.

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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

Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.

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Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!

—John Milton