Evil Quotes by John Milton

Evil, be thou my good.

— John Milton

Evil on itself shall back recoil.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

— John Milton

And out of good still to find means of evil.

— John Milton

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

— John Milton

O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

— John Milton

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge…

— John Milton

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together,…

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.

— John Milton

That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of…

— John Milton

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider…

— John Milton

Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life;…

— John Milton

That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to…

— John Milton

Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the…

— John Milton

Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or…

— John Milton

“Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is…

— John Milton

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n,…

— John Milton

These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever…

— John Milton

Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed,…

— John Milton