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John Milton
Age: 65 †
Born: 1608
Born: December 9
Died: 1674
Died: November 8
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More quotes by John Milton
How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.
John Milton
O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.
John Milton
Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.
John Milton
Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.
John Milton
Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.
John Milton
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
John Milton
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?
John Milton
The planets in their station list'ning stood.
John Milton
Which way I fly is Hell myself am Hell.
John Milton
The pious and just honoring of ourselves may be thought the fountainhead from whence every laudable and worthy enterprise issues forth.
John Milton
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion?
John Milton
I did but prompt the age to quit their clogs By the known rules of ancient liberty, When straight a barbarous noise environs me Of owls and cuckoos, asses, apes and dogs.
John Milton
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.
John Milton
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies.
John Milton
The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.
John Milton
Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.
John Milton
O when meet now Such pairs, in love and mutual honour joined?
John Milton
Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh to lose thee were to lose myself.
John Milton
Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.
John Milton
Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.
John Milton