| 254 Famous Quotes by John Milton
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“If at great things thou would'st arrive,
Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, if thou hearken to me;
Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain,
While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.”
Ambition Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 426)
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“So spake the Fiend, and with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.”
Necessity Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IV, l. 393)
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“Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.”
Athens Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 240)
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“Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And eloquence.”
Greece Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. IV, l. 240)
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“Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.”
Cookery Quotes Source: L'Allegro (l. 85)
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“And in requital ope his leathern scrip,
And show me simples of a thousand names,
Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.”
Medicine Quotes Source: Comus (l. 626)
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“The oracles are dumb,
No voice or hideous hum
Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.”
Oracle Quotes Source: Hymn on Christ's Nativity (l. 173)
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“No mighty trance, or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.”
Prophecy (prophesy) Quotes Source: Hymn on Christ's Nativity (l. 173)
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“Till old experience do attain
To something like prophetic strain.”
Prophecy (prophesy) Quotes Source: Il Penseroso (l. 173)
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“These evils I deserve, and more
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Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon,
Whose ear is ever open, and his eye
Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,170)
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“Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,
And giv'st access, though secret she retire.”
Experience Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 807)
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“He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?”
News Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,350)
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“These false pretexts and varnished colours failing,
Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.”
Guilt Quotes Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 901)
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“Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost.”
Sin Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 780)
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“So many laws argues so many sins.”
Sin Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 283)
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“Law can discover sin, but not remove,
Save by those shadowy expiations weak.”
Sin Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 290)
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“O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!”
Faith Quotes Source: Comus (l. 213)
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“That in such righteousness
To them by faith imputed they may find
Justification towards God, and peace
Of conscience.”
Faith Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. XII, l. 294)
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“Yet I argue not
Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of right or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.”
Faith Quotes Source: To Cyriack Skinner
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“Mirth, admit me of thy crew,
To live with her, and live with thee,
In unreprov'd pleasures free.”
Merriment Quotes Source: L'Allegro (l. 38)
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“Though throned in highest bliss
Equal to God, and equally enjoying
God-like fruition.”
Enjoyment Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. III, l. 305)
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“Who can enjoy alone?
Or all enjoying what contentment find?”
Enjoyment Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 365)
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“For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full
Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond
Higher design than to enjoy his state.”
Enjoyment Quotes Source: Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 201)
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“For smiles from reason flow
To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.”
Smiles Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 239)
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“A smile that glow'd
Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.”
Smiles Quotes Source: Paradise Lost (bk. VIII, l. 618)
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