Quote

Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

John Milton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
Poet
Politician
Writer
Steel
Breasts
Patience
Arms
Triple
Breast
Stubborn

More quotes by John Milton

Image
Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
John Milton
Image
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.
John Milton
Image
Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces.
John Milton
Image
The olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long.
John Milton
Image
His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
John Milton
Image
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
John Milton
Image
Our country is where ever we are well off.
John Milton
Image
For books are as meats and viands are some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
John Milton
Image
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
John Milton
Image
The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.
John Milton
Image
Th'invention all admir'd, and each, how he to be th'inventor miss'd so easy it seem'd once found, which yet unfound most would have thought impossible.
John Milton
Image
Where shame is, there is also fear.
John Milton
Image
As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
John Milton
Image
A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
John Milton
Image
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
John Milton
Image
Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
John Milton
Image
Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
John Milton
Image
If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.
John Milton
Image
The love-lorn nightingale nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.
John Milton
Image
Calm of mind, all passion spent.
John Milton