John Milton Quotes on Mortality

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1. “How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.”

John Milton

Mortality, Death, Nature, Rest, Maternal Imagery

2. “Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.”

John Milton

Poetry, Nature, Creativity, Mortality, Artistic Process

3. “Death ready stands to interpose his dart.”

John Milton

Death, Mortality, Threat, Inevitability, Human Vulnerability

4. “Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.”

John Milton

Mortality, Origin, Human Condition, Cycle Of Life, Biblical Allusion

5. “O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”

John Milton

Beauty, Transience, Nature, Mortality, Poetic Imagery

6. “Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north – wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!”

John Milton

Death, Nature, Seasons, Mortality, Inevitability

7. “In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.”

John Milton

Labor, Mortality, Human Condition, Biblical Allusion, Life Cycle

8. “Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.”

John Milton

Fame, Mortality, Human Achievement, Earthly Limitations, Ambition

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