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John Milton Quotes on Morality

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1. “Swinish gluttony never looks to heaven amidst its gorgeous feast; but with besotted, base ingratitude, cravens and blasphemes his feeder.”

John Milton

Gluttony, Ingratitude, Morality, Excess, Spiritual Blindness

2. “Temper justice with mercy.”

John Milton

Justice, Mercy, Balance, Morality, Judgment

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. “So many laws argues so many sins.”

John Milton

Law, Sin, Morality, Society, Human Nature

5. “Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”

John Milton

Virtue, Law, Morality, Transgression, Higher Purpose

6. “For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.”

John Milton

Liberty, Virtue, Responsibility, Morality, Power

7. “None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”

John Milton

Freedom, Morality, Virtue, License, Human Nature

8. “The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious.”

John Milton

Liberty, Conscience, Freedom, Human Rights, Morality

9. “For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.”

John Milton

Truth, Divinity, Falsehood, Morality, Spiritual Power

10. “Virtue hath no tongue to check vice's pride.”

John Milton

Virtue, Vice, Morality, Pride, Silence

11. “Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Morality, Books, Conscience, Purity

12. “Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.”

John Milton

Self-esteem, Morality, Justice, Personal Growth, Virtue

13. “Wickedness is weakness.”

John Milton

Morality, Strength, Vice, Virtue, Human Nature

14. “Laws can discover sin, but not remove it.”

John Milton

Law, Sin, Morality, Human Nature, Societal Limitations

15. “Impostor; do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance; she, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare temperance.”

John Milton

Nature, Abundance, Morality, Temperance, Divine Provision

16. “Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.”

John Milton

Morality, Ambition, Peace, Virtue, Worldly Power

John Milton Quotes on Morality

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