Inspirational Quotes by John Milton · Page 2

Evil on itself shall back recoil.

— John Milton

Ride the air In whirlwind.

— John Milton

Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.

— John Milton

This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

— John Milton

Dark with excessive bright.

— John Milton

Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate

— John Milton

My sentence is for open war.

— John Milton

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

— John Milton

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?

— John Milton

No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

— John Milton

His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

— John Milton

Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.

— John Milton

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

— John Milton

The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

— John Milton

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to…

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears.

— John Milton

The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

— John Milton

Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.

— John Milton

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

— John Milton

Where shame is, there is also fear.

— John Milton

That power Which erring men call Chance.

— John Milton

Indu'd With sanctity of reason.

— John Milton

Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

— John Milton

His words, like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command. Ibid.

— John Milton

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

— John Milton

Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

— John Milton

The planets in their station list'ning stood.

— John Milton

Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.

— John Milton

Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

— John Milton

Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.

— John Milton

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

— John Milton

Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.

— John Milton

His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

— John Milton