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John Milton Quotes

«I argue not against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot of heart or hope, but still bear up, and steer right onward»
«No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities»
«The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Learning | Keywords: regaining, repair
«I form'd them free, and free they must remain, Till they enthral themselves»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: enthral
«I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat»
«Restless thoughts, like a deadly swarm of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, but rush upon me thronging.»
«He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem»
«To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n»
«Sleep on, Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek No happier state, and know to know no more»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: blest
«Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night?»