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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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

John Milton

Faith, Hope, Divine Inspiration, Spirituality, Poetic Imagery

392. “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

393. “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

394. “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

395. “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

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

John Milton

Youth, Joy, Nature, Dance, Innocence

397. “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

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

John Milton

Night, Primordial, Darkness, Nature, Poetic Imagery

399. “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

400. “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

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

John Milton

Fear, Nature, Darkness, Journey, Danger

402. “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

403. “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

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

John Milton

Folly, Paradise, Ignorance, Spiritual State, Human Condition

405. “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

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

John Milton

Knowledge, Wisdom, Superficiality, Reading, Self-awareness

407. “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

408. “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

409. “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

410. “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

411. “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

412. “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