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John Milton Quotes on Evil

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1. “That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.”

John Milton

Virtue, Innocence, Evil, Moral Development, Purity

2. “Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.”

John Milton

Hell, Evil, Hierarchy, Chaos, Biblical Allusion

3. “For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.”

John Milton

Hypocrisy, Evil, Divine Perception, Human Limitation, Morality

4. “Antichrist is Mammon's son.”

John Milton

Religion, Evil, Materialism, Christianity, Symbolism

5. “Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.”

John Milton

Hell, Wealth, Corruption, Evil, Moral Warning

6. “O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.”

John Milton

Foresight, Ignorance, Future, Evil, Burden Of Knowledge

7. “Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.”

John Milton

Evil, Temptation, Purity, Innocence, Moral Responsibility

8. “Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.”

John Milton

Satan, Evil, Ambition, Hell, Cosmic Conflict

9. “Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.”

John Milton

Human Nature, Discord, Evil, Rationality, Criticism

10. “Pandemonium, the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built of the deep: the infernal peers there sit in council.”

John Milton

Hell, Satan, Evil, Council, Cosmic Order

11. “That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.”

John Milton

Deception, Hypocrisy, Revenge, Evil, Appearances

12. “Hail universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good; and if the night Have gathered aught of evil or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.”

John Milton

Divine Appeal, Goodness, Evil, Light And Darkness, Prayer

13. “That space the Evil One abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, Of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .”

John Milton

Evil, Transformation, Goodness, Satan, Moral Complexity

14. “Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss.”

John Milton

Goodness, Virtue, Evil, Beauty, Moral Contrast

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