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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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151. “In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”

John Milton

Change, Fear, Power, Darkness, Political Upheaval

152. “In God's intention, a meet and happy conversation is the chiefest and noblest end of marriage.”

John Milton

Marriage, Companionship, Divine Purpose, Conversation, Happiness

153. “In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.”

John Milton

Medicine, Melancholy, Balance, Healing, Holistic Approach

154. “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

155. “In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”

John Milton

Nature, Spring, Appreciation, Joy, Harmony

156. “Infinity is a dark illimitable ocean, without bound.”

John Milton

Infinity, Mystery, Vastness, Philosophical Contemplation, Cosmic Scale

157. “Ink is the blood of the printing-press.”

John Milton

Writing, Printing, Communication, Knowledge, Metaphor

158. “Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

John Milton

Innocence, Experience, Darkness, Human Nature, Irreversibility

159. “Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.”

John Milton

Nature, Abundance, Beauty, Imagery, Cosmic Scale

160. “Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.”

John Milton

Nature, Chaos, Birth, Death, Cosmic Cycle

161. “Is it true, O Christ in heaven, that the highest suffer the most? That the strongest wander furthest and most hopelessly are lost? That the mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain? That the anguish of the singer makes the sweetness of the strain?”

John Milton

Suffering, Strength, Loss, Pain, Artistic Creation

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

John Milton

Chastity, Virtue, Protection, Moral Strength, Personification

163. “It is lawful and hath been held so through all ages for any one who have the power to call to account a tyrant or wicked king, and after due conviction to depose and put him to death.”

John Milton

Tyranny, Justice, Power, Revolution, Political Philosophy

164. “It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.”

John Milton

Love, Mystery, Human Nature, Attraction, Relationships

165. “It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Good And Evil, Temptation, Fall Of Man, Biblical Allusion

166. “It was the winter wild, While the Heaven-born child, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”

John Milton

Nativity, Winter, Jesus, Humility, Christianity

167. “Join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.”

John Milton

Peace, Tranquility, Fasting, Divine Communion, Spiritual Practice

168. “Joking decides great things, Stronger and better oft than earnest can.”

John Milton

Humor, Decision-making, Power, Seriousness, Human Nature

169. “Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men; Unless there be who think not God at all.”

John Milton

Divine Justice, Faith, Skepticism, Human Understanding, Theodicy

170. “Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.”

John Milton

Justice, Action, Slander, Moral Response, Integrity

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

John Milton

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

172. “Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Morality, Books, Conscience, Purity

173. “Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?”

John Milton

Knowledge, Forbidden Fruit, Curiosity, Divine Will, Human Nature

174. “Ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize.”

John Milton

Beauty, Influence, Judgment, Femininity, Social Power

175. “Laws can discover sin, but not remove it.”

John Milton

Law, Sin, Morality, Human Nature, Societal Limitations

176. “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

177. “Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.”

John Milton

Fate, Prophecy, Future, Free Will, Human Destiny

178. “Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.”

John Milton

Hell, Wealth, Corruption, Evil, Moral Warning

179. “Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.”

John Milton

Faith, Doubt, Proof, Belief, Spiritual Weakness

180. “Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”

John Milton

England, National Pride, Leadership, Civilization, Moral Guidance

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