John Milton Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
-- John MiltonSource : "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.
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“He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.”
-- John MiltonSource : Areopagitica (1644)
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“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.”
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“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”
-- John MiltonSource : Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.”
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“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
-- John MiltonSource : 'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 34
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“O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.”
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“Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”
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“In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”
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“Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.”
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“Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”
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“Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”
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“Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.”
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“The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.”
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“Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.”
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“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”
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“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”
-- John MiltonSource : Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)
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“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”
-- John MiltonSource : 1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.98-9.
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“Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.”
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“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.”
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“Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.”
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“Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse”
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“Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.”
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“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
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“Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.”
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“And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night...”
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“Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.”
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“One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.”
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