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John Milton Quotes



Quotes by John Milton - (11 quotes)

John Milton - From the Books category:

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to life beyond life. (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Change category:

At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: / To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Earth category:

What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein – each other like, more than on Earth is thought? (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Freedom category:

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Hypocrisy category:

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Meaning category:

Where more is meant than meets the ear. (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Music category:

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie. (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Power category:

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Sadness category:

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Thought category:

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. (John Milton)

John Milton - From the Time category:

How soon hath time, the subtle thief of youth, / Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! (John Milton)