John Milton Quotes and Sayings
- Name:
- John Milton (random)
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- Type:
- Poet
- Nationality:
- English
- Birth Date / Year:
- December 9, 1608
- Death Date / Year:
- November 8, 1674
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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For what can war, but endless war, still breed? John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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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 Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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They also serve who only stand and wait. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
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Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton | Refcard PDF ↑
