John Milton Quotes on Innocence

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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. “To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.”

John Milton

Youth, Joy, Nature, Dance, Innocence

3. “Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.”

John Milton

Innocence, Impurity, Trial, Purification, Human Nature

4. “Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.”

John Milton

Innocence, Impending Doom, Joy, Sorrow, Fall Of Man

5. “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

6. “Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.”

John Milton

Eden, Adam And Eve, Paradise, Love, Innocence

7. “Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.”

John Milton

Nature, Beauty, Perfection, Paradise, Innocence

8. “Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

John Milton

Innocence, Experience, Darkness, Human Nature, Irreversibility

9. “Goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.”

John Milton

Goodness, Perception, Innocence, Judgment, Moral Purity

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