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John Milton Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”
— John Milton, Paradise Regained
Tagged: Passion, Desire, Fear, king
“Freely we serve
Because we freely love, as in our will
To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Tagged: Service, Love, Will, Freedom
“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
Tagged: Hope, Farewell, Remorse
“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”
— John Milton, Comus
Tagged: Intoxication, Drinking, delight, bliss, Happiness
“Ah, why should all mankind
For one man's fault, be condemned,
If guiltless?”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Tagged: Mankind, Condemnation, Guilt
“In loving thou dost well, in passion not,
Wherein true love consists not: Love refines
The thoughts, and heart enlarges; hath his seat
In reason, and is judicious”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Tagged: Love, Loving, Passion, True Love, Thoughts, heart
“For 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, Areopagitica
Tagged: Books, Life, Soul, Intellect
“Solitude sometimes is best society.”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Tagged: Solitude, Society, Privacy
“The childhood shows the man,
As morning shows the day.”
— John Milton, Paradise Regained
Tagged: Childhood, Morning, Man, Growing Up
“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”
— John Milton, Paradise Lost
Tagged: Free, Freedom, Creation
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
— John Milton, The Complete Poetry
Tagged: Compulsion, Music, sweet
“Mutual love, the crown of bliss.”
— John Milton, Toasts: Over 1,500 of the Best Toasts, Sentiments, Blessings, and Graces
Tagged: Love, Mutual Love
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