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John Milton Quotes on Virtue

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1. “Enflamed with the study of learning and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.”

John Milton

Education, Virtue, Patriotism, Ambition, Legacy

2. “A complete and generous education fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both public and private, of peace and war.”

John Milton

Education, Virtue, Citizenship, Personal Development, Public Service

3. “Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed with love and sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind, or in us both one soul.”

John Milton

Love, Harmony, Virtue, Relationship, Unity

4. “Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not inthralled; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.”

John Milton

Virtue, Resilience, Adversity, Triumph, Moral Strength

5. “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

6. “Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.”

John Milton

Virtue, Freedom, Aspiration, Moral Strength, Divine Favor

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

John Milton

Virtue, Law, Morality, Transgression, Higher Purpose

8. “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

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

John Milton

Freedom, Morality, Virtue, License, Human Nature

10. “He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.”

John Milton

Writing, Virtue, Self-improvement, Artistry, Personal Growth

11. “True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.”

John Milton

Greed, Modesty, Wealth, Virtue, Social Commentary

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

John Milton

Virtue, Vice, Morality, Pride, Silence

13. “Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.”

John Milton

Womanhood, Domesticity, Marriage, Virtue, Gender Roles

14. “I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble Education; laborious indeed at first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect, and melodious sounds on every side, that the harp of Orpheus was not more charming.”

John Milton

Education, Virtue, Effort, Reward, Personal Growth

15. “So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.”

John Milton

Chastity, Virtue, Divine Protection, Purity, Angelic Guardianship

16. “What is strength without a double share of wisdom?”

John Milton

Strength, Wisdom, Balance, Virtue, Human Potential

17. “Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.”

John Milton

Wealth, Virtue, Industry, Perseverance, Moral Economy

18. “Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.”

John Milton

Goodness, Sharing, Abundance, Virtue, Social Benefit

19. “License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.”

John Milton

Liberty, License, Wisdom, Virtue, Social Responsibility

20. “I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.”

John Milton

Vice, Virtue, Argument, Pride, Moral Struggle

21. “Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.”

John Milton

Virtue, Constancy, Moral Strength, Righteousness, Human Nature

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

John Milton

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

23. “Wickedness is weakness.”

John Milton

Morality, Strength, Vice, Virtue, Human Nature

24. “Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.”

John Milton

Prudence, Wisdom, Discernment, Circumstance, Virtue

25. “See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.”

John Milton

Golden Age, Virtue, Joy, Love, Triumph

26. “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

27. “It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.”

John Milton

Chastity, Virtue, Protection, Moral Strength, Personification

28. “Virtue that wavers is not virtue.”

John Milton

Virtue, Constancy, Moral Strength, Integrity, Character

29. “Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.”

John Milton

Virtue, Inner Light, Moral Strength, Guidance, Self-reliance

30. “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.”

John Milton

Virtue, Challenge, Moral Strength, Experience, Life Struggle

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