Quotes by John Milton

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John Milton is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...

John Milton

Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

John Milton

Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n, Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom So strictly, but much more to pity incline: No sooner did thy dear and only Son Perceive thee purpos'd not to doom frail Man So strictly, but much more to ...

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...So little knows Any but God alone to value right The good before him but perverts best things To worst abuse or to their meanest use.

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For Man to tell how human life began is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

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A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged; what burden then?

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For so I created them free and free they must remain.

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Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!

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Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness! Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of si...

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Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

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Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or Time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

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Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope,/If not, what resolution from despair.

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What think'st thou then of mee, and this my State, Seem I to thee sufficiently possest Of happiness, or not? who am alone From all Eternitie, for none I know Second to mee or like, equal much less.

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Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.

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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

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Of four infernal rivers that disgorge/ Into the burning Lake their baleful streams;/Abhorred Styx the flood of deadly hate,/Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;/Cocytus, nam'd of lamentation loud/ Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegethon/ Whos...

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In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances or footstep trace? For though I fled him angry, yet recalled To life prolonged and promised race I now Gladly behold though but His utmost skirts Of glory, and far off His steps adore.

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What hath night to do with sleep?

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Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thing The Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his ...

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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss th...

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Author Bio

  • NameJohn Milton
  • DescriptionEnglish epic poet
  • BornDecember 9, 1608
  • DiedNovember 8, 1674
  • CountryKingdom Of England
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet