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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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31. “Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!”

John Milton

Strength, Happiness, Love, Obedience, Divine Command

32. “Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.”

John Milton

Beauty, Divine Creation, Nature, Spirituality, Revelation

33. “Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.”

John Milton

Beauty, Nature, Display, Society, Admiration

34. “Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.”

John Milton

Beauty, Nature, Sharing, Happiness, Human Connection

35. “Beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive.”

John Milton

Beauty, Weakness, Captivity, Perception, Moral Strength

36. “Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.”

John Milton

Truth, Study, Learning, Tranquility, Intellectual Pursuit

37. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

John Milton

Pride, Rebellion, Power, Hell, Heaven

38. “Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.”

John Milton

Eternity, Infinity, Mystery, Cosmic Scale, Human Limitation

39. “Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.”

John Milton

Love, Science, Humor, Chemistry, Human Emotion

40. “Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.”

John Milton

Ignorance, Incompetence, Leadership, Criticism, Metaphor

41. “Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.”

John Milton

Action, Deeds, Humility, Accomplishment, Moral Exhortation

42. “Calm of mind, all passion spent.”

John Milton

Tranquility, Passion, Contentment, Emotional State, Inner Peace

43. “Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?”

John Milton

Divine Inspiration, Mortal Limitation, Enchantment, Beauty, Transcendence

44. “Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.”

John Milton

Nature, Trees, Landscape, Beauty, Poetic Imagery

45. “Celestial light, shine inward, that I may see and tell of things invisible to mortal sight.”

John Milton

Divine Inspiration, Insight, Vision, Spiritual Enlightenment, Poetic Invocation

46. “Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.”

John Milton

Chaos, Chance, Governance, Cosmic Order, Fate

47. “Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”

John Milton

Melancholy, Purity, Solemnity, Personification, Imagery

48. “Commands are no constraints.”

John Milton

Freedom, Authority, Obedience, Free Will, Power Dynamics

49. “Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.”

John Milton

Creation, Order, Chaos, Divine Power, Light And Darkness