John Milton Quotes

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Nations grown corrupt Love bondage more than liberty; Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
- John Milton

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The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day.
- John Milton

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Time, the subtle thief of youth.
- John Milton

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Luck is the residue of design.
- John Milton

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In solitude What happiness, who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying, what contentment find?
- John Milton

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Most men admire Virtue, who follow not her lore.
- John Milton

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Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe.
- John Milton

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For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.
- John Milton

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He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
- John Milton

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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
- John Milton

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

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A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischared.
- John Milton

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Human face divine.
- John Milton

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And to the faithful, death the gate of life.
- John Milton

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

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In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
- John Milton

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Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.
- John Milton

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No date prefixed directs me in the starry rubric set.
- John Milton

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The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
- John Milton

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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep.
- John Milton

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So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
- John Milton

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Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named, not good.
- John Milton