| 254 Famous Quotes by John Milton
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“Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote.”
Sound Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 476)
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“In naked beauty more adorned
More lovely than Pandora.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 713)
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“But first and chiefest, with thee bring
Him that yon soars on golden wing,
Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,
The Cherub Contemplation.”
Contemplation Quotes Source: Il Penseroso (l. 51)
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“In discourse more sweet,
(For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,)
Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,
In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high
Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,
Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute;
And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.”
Contemplation Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 555)
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“Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.”
Praise Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 197)
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“And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised
God and his works.”
Praise Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 258)
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“Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.”
Praise Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. III, l. 56)
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“. . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.”
Adventure Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. X, l. 439)
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“Rather than be less
Car'd not to be at all.”
Choice Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 47)
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“Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
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And boldly venture to whatever place
Farthest from pain?”
Choice Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 889)
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“Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till at his second bidding darkness fled,
Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.”
Order Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 710)
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“Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial
To my proportion'd strength.”
Providence Quotes Source: Comus (l. 329)
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“What boots it at one gate to make defence,
And at another to let in the foe?”
Enemies Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 560)
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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Enemies Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 560)
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“For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the
borrower, among good authors is accounted plagiary.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Iconoclastes (XXIII)
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“Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.”
Plagiarism Quotes Source: Iconoclastes (XXIII)
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“To satisfy the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd
Not to defer; hunger and thirst at once
Powerful persuaders, quicken'd at the scent
Of that alluring fruit, urged me so keen.”
Apples Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 584)
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“Joking decides great things,
Stronger and better oft than earnest can.”
Jesting Quotes Source: Horace
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“I was all ear,
And took in strains that might create a soul
Under the ribs of death.”
Hearing Quotes Source: Comus (l. 560)
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“Where more is meant than meets the ear.”
Hearing Quotes Source: Il Penseroso (l. 120)
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“Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
Within thy airy shell,
By slow Meander's margent green,
And in the violet-embroidered vale.”
Echo Quotes Source: Comus--Song
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“Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.”
Wealth Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 690)
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“Mammon led them on--
Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell
From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks and thoughts
Were always downward bent, admiring more
The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold,
Than aught divine or holy else enjoyed
In vision beatific.”
Mammon Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 678)
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“The unsunn'd heaps
Of miser's treasures.”
Misers Quotes Source: Comus (l. 398)
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“Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.”
Prosperity Quotes Source: Paraise Lost (bk. II, l. 39)
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