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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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1. “A beardless cynic is the shame of nature.”

John Milton

Cynicism, Youth, Nature, Criticism, Maturity

2. “The wife, where danger or dishonour lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.”

John Milton

Marriage, Loyalty, Protection, Partnership, Gender Roles

3. “Commands are no constraints.”

John Milton

Freedom, Authority, Obedience, Free Will, Power Dynamics

4. “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

5. “I thence invoke my thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.”

John Milton

Inspiration, Ambition, Poetry, Creativity, Literary Aspiration

6. “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

7. “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

8. “Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits, flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please and sate the curious taste?”

John Milton

Nature, Abundance, Purpose, Curiosity, Divine Providence

9. “What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. 1 Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.”

John Milton

Divine Inspiration, Enlightenment, Providence, Poetry, Spiritual Quest

10. “Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Wisdom, Superficiality, Reading, Self-awareness

11. “The childhood shows the man As morning shows the day. Be famous then By wisdom; as thy empire must extend, So let extend thy mind o'er all the world.”

John Milton

Childhood, Potential, Wisdom, Ambition, Personal Growth

12. “A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.”

John Milton

Folly, Paradise, Ignorance, Spiritual State, Human Condition

13. “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

14. “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

15. “The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.”

John Milton

Fear, Nature, Darkness, Journey, Danger

16. “The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.”

John Milton

Darkness, Loneliness, Despair, Nature, Emotional State

17. “I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.”

John Milton

Listening, Music, Inspiration, Transformation, Spiritual Awakening

18. “Sable-vested Night, eldest of things.”

John Milton

Night, Primordial, Darkness, Nature, Poetic Imagery

19. “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

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

John Milton

Youth, Joy, Nature, Dance, Innocence

21. “Sense of pleasure we may well Spare out of life perhaps, and not repine, But live content, which is the calmest life; But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.”

John Milton

Pleasure, Contentment, Pain, Suffering, Human Condition

22. “So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.”

John Milton

Temptation, Fall Of Man, Deception, Sin, Biblical Allusion

23. “Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.”

John Milton

Conscience, Despair, Memory, Regret, Moral Awakening

24. “For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.”

John Milton

Truth, Strength, Divine Power, Error, Moral Victory

25. “O welcome pure-eyed Faith, white handed Hope, Thou hovering angel girt with golden wings.”

John Milton

Faith, Hope, Divine Inspiration, Spirituality, Poetic Imagery

26. “Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”

John Milton

Music, Influence, Beauty, Power, Art

27. “Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.”

John Milton

Death, Personification, Horror, Famine, Poetic Imagery

28. “A short retirement urges a sweet return.”

John Milton

Absence, Return, Appreciation, Relationships, Time

29. “On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.”

John Milton

Fantasy, Nature, Supernatural, Playfulness, Imagery

30. “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

415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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