Books Quotes by John Milton

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

— John Milton

Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.

— John Milton

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

— John Milton

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

— John Milton

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.

— John Milton

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

— John Milton

“but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself”

— John Milton

He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

— John Milton

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the…

— John Milton

A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond

— John Milton

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

— John Milton

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrowers, among good authors is accounted Plagiarè.

— John Milton

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.

— John Milton

Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

— John Milton

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”

— John Milton

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever…

— John Milton

And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who…

— John Milton

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that…

— John Milton

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them…I know they are as lively and as…

— John Milton

“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what needs…

— John Milton

Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the…

— John Milton

Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need…

— John Milton

“I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating…

— John Milton

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but ...do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living…

— John Milton

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit"―”

— John Milton

“Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed…

— John Milton