Heaven Quotes by John Milton

The starry cope Of heaven.

— John Milton

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

— John Milton

“Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight.”

— John Milton

It were a journey like the path to heaven, To help you find them.

— John Milton

Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

— John Milton

My latest found, Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight!

— John Milton

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

— John Milton

At His birth a star, unseen before in heaven, proclaims Him come.

— John Milton

Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was…

— John Milton

When thou attended gloriously from heaven , Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy summoning archangels to proclaim Thy…

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This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother…

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In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature…

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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…

— John Milton

Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.

— John Milton

Here we may reign secure; and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell…

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What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?

— John Milton

Me miserable! Which way shall I fly Infinite wrath and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And…

— John Milton

Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals…

— John Milton

Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are…

— John Milton

Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea; Of…

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Heaven is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise. Think only what concerns thee and thy being;…

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“Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings A mind not to be chang'd by Place or…

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“To mee, who with eternal Famine pine, Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven, There best, where most with ravin I might…

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Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence…

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These are thy glorious works Parent of Good, Almighty, thine this universal Frame, Thus wondrous fair; thy self how wondrous then! Unspeakable,…

— John Milton

“So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard Well pleased, but answered not; for now too nigh Th' Archangel stood, and from…

— John Milton

From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who…

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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

— John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.

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Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.

— John Milton

The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.

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You can make hell out of heaven and heaven out of hell. It's all in the mind.

— John Milton

It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

— John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

— John Milton

The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that…

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Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit,…

— John Milton

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving…

— John Milton