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Love Quotes by John Milton

95 Love quotes by John Milton

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John Milton portrays love as a force that can turn quarrels into pleasant harmony. He links love with faith and virtue, suggesting they survive without outside help, and he even jokes that love is chemically like eating chocolate. He also writes that heavenly love can defeat hellish hate, giving life even in death.

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Execute their airy purposes.

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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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The never-ending flight Of future days.

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Reason is also choice.

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Freely we serve, because freely we love.

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Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

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Our reason is our law.

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Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human happiness.

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See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

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Consider first, that great or bright infers not excellence.

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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

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With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

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So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he.

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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

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Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten…

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

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Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.

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“Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew Iron tears down Pluto’s cheek, And made…

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But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

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He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.

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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit;…

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Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love,…

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“Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-imbroider'd vale Where…

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Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which…

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“So heavenly love shall outdo hellish hate, Giving to death, and dying to redeem, So dearly to redeem what hellish hate So…

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It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve…

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“Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith; Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come called charity, the…

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“Henceforth an individual solace dear; Part of my Soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half: with that thy gentle…

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“Not so on Man; him through their malice fall'n, Father of Mercy and Grace, thou didst not doom So strictly, but much…

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“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild…

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“Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food…

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“ Bear with me then, if lawful what I ask; Love not the heav'nly Spirits, and how thir Love Express they, by looks…

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“So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found, Among the faithless, faithful only hee; Among innumerable false, unmov'd, Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'd His Loyaltie…

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“Comus. The Star that bids the Shepherd fold, Now the top of Heav'n doth hold, And the gilded Car of Day, […

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“Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of Heaven, we have great argument to think in a…

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“How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild…

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the…

And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost…

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that…

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they…

There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs…

New Presbyter is but Old Priest writ Large.

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to…

Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply With our own hands his office on ourselves; Why stand we longer shivering under fears,…

They are the troublers, they are the dividers of unity, who neglect and don't permit others to unite those dissevered pieces which are yet…