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John Milton Quotes

John Milton quotes

English Poet December 9, 1608 – November 8, 1674

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From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star. John Milton
What in me is dark. Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument. I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22. John Milton
John Milton quote: "Solitude sometimes is best society."
Solitude sometimes is best society. John Milton
John Milton quote: "Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight."
Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight. John Milton
Let her [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. John Milton
Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary…. They are not skillful considerers of human things who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin. For … it is a huge heap increasing under the very act of diminishing…. Good and evil we know in the field of this world grow up together almost inseparably…. It was from out of the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and... John Milton
Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain? John Milton
Horror and doubt distract. His troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir. The Hell within him, for within him Hell. He brings and round about him, nor from Hell. One step no more than from himself can fly. By change of place. John Milton
While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace, both joining, As joined in injuries, and enmity. Against a foe by doom express assigned us, That cruel serpent. John Milton
John Milton quote: "No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men..."
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. John Milton
John Milton quote: "He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not..."
He left it in thy power, ordaind thy will By nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate Inextricable, or strict necessity; John Milton
... a dark. Illimitable ocean, without bound, Without dimension; where length, breadth, and height, And time, and place are lost; John Milton
He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth. John Milton
John Milton quote: "but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself"
but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself John Milton
John Milton quote: "He who destroys a good book kills reason itself"."
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself". John Milton

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