John Milton Quotes

1608-1674, British Poet
quotes
67
topics
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“Reason also is choice.”
Logic
“Tears such as angels weep.”
Tears
“Virtue that wavers is not virtue.”
Virtue
“Lords are lordliest in their wine.”
Aristocracy
“Fear of change perplexes monarchs.”
Change
“With thee conversing I forget all time.”
Conversation
“Where no hope is left, is left no fear.”
Hope
“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”
Music
“License they mean when they cry liberty.”
Liberty
“They also serve who only stand and wait.”
Patience
“A short retirement urges a sweet return.”
Retirement
“Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.”
Fame
“Our country is where ever we are well off.”
Home
“Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”
Fame
“Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.”
Books and Reading
“Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”
Communication
“Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
Youth
“The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.”
Childhood
“Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.”
Death and Dying
“Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.”
Peace
“Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.”
Temptation
“Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.”
Writers and Writing
“Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!”
Melancholy
“Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.”
Self-esteem
“What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.”
Respectability
“To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.”
Blindness
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
Mind
“And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.”
Revenge