Virtue Quotes by John Milton

Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.

— John Milton

Virtue that wavers is not virtue.

— John Milton

Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

— John Milton

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

— John Milton

Her virtue and the conscience of her worth, That would be woo'd, and not unsought be won.

— John Milton

God sure esteems the growth and completing of one virtuous person, more that the restraint of ten vicious.

— John Milton

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea…

— John Milton

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

— John Milton

The conquer'd, also, and enslaved by war, Shall, with their freedom lost, all virtue lose.

— John Milton

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

— John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm…

— John Milton

“...for neither do the spirits damned Lose all their virtue, lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth which glory…

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of…

— John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled; Yea even that which mischief meant most harm.…

— John Milton

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble…

— John Milton

Only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come call'd charity, the…

— John Milton

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance…

— 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

The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out…

— John Milton

Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea…

— John Milton

Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee,…

— John Milton

This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and…

— John Milton

He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet…

— John Milton

Virtue, which breaks through opposition and all temptation can remove, most shines, and most is acceptable above.

— John Milton

“Much of the Soul they talk, but all awry; And in themselves seek virtue; and to themselves All glory arrogate, to God…

— John Milton

Thrones, dominions, princedoms, virtues, powers-- If these magnific titles yet remain Not merely titular.

— John Milton

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

— John Milton

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

— John Milton

“And what is faith, love, virtue unassay'd alone, without exterior help sustained?”

— John Milton

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

— John Milton

I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out…

— John Milton

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools, The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare, more apt To slacken virtue, and abate…

— John Milton

Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men…

— 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

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;…

— John Milton

Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious…

— John Milton