World Quotes by John Milton

The rising world of waters dark and deep.

— John Milton

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

— 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

Gratitude bestows reverence…changing forever how we experience life and the world.

— John Milton

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at…

— John Milton

Man's disobedience) brought into this World a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's Harbinger

— John Milton

The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let…

— John Milton

And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the…

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.

— John Milton

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with…

— John Milton

O why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest heav'n With Spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on earth, this fair…

— John Milton

Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss…

— John Milton

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze,…

— 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…

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons,…

— John Milton

... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval…

— John Milton

...it ought not to appear wonderful if many, both Jews and others, who lived before Christ, and many also who have lived…

— 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

They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the…

— 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

Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave--/ Of neither sea, nor shore, nor air, nor fire,/ But…

— John Milton

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and…

— John Milton

So shall the world go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning.

— John Milton

The great creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days' work, a world.

— John Milton

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.

— John Milton

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

— John Milton

Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and…

— John Milton