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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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151. “O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.”

John Milton

Nature, Love, Hope, Spring, Birdsong

152. “What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.”

John Milton

Immortality, Contemplation, Divine Assistance, Human Aspiration, Eternity

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

John Milton

Law, Sin, Morality, Human Nature, Societal Limitations

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

John Milton

Golden Age, Virtue, Joy, Love, Triumph

155. “Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.”

John Milton

Satan, Evil, Ambition, Hell, Cosmic Conflict

156. “Fame, if not double fac'd, is double mouth'd, And with contrary blast proclaims most deeds; On both his wings, one black, the other white, Bears greatest names in his wild aery flight.”

John Milton

Fame, Duality, Reputation, Human Nature, Ambiguity

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

John Milton

Divine Inspiration, Mortal Limitation, Enchantment, Beauty, Transcendence

158. “Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.”

John Milton

Wisdom, Solitude, Contemplation, Growth, Inner Peace

159. “To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.”

John Milton

Weakness, Misery, Action, Suffering, Human Condition

160. “Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.”

John Milton

Self-control, Sin, Death, Temptation, Moral Guidance

161. “Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame,-nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.”

John Milton

Death, Nobility, Acceptance, Grief, Honor

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

John Milton

Justice, Action, Slander, Moral Response, Integrity

163. “Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry.”

John Milton

Chaos, Nature, Elemental Forces, Cosmic Struggle, Primordial State

164. “What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste?”

John Milton

Feast, Refinement, Greek Culture, Intellectual Pleasure, Companionship

165. “Yet I argue not Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.”

John Milton

Perseverance, Faith, Hope, Adversity, Divine Will

166. “Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!”

John Milton

Debt, Suffering, Eternity, Damnation, Consequence

167. “Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.”

John Milton

Love, Reason, Communication, Happiness, Human Connection

168. “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

169. “Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.”

John Milton

Temptation, Failure, Deception, Hope, Divine Victory

170. “Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”

John Milton

Truth, Freedom, Debate, Intellectual Integrity, Knowledge

171. “Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.”

John Milton

Evil, Temptation, Purity, Innocence, Moral Responsibility

172. “Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!”

John Milton

Death, Oblivion, Cure, Existence, Paradox

173. “What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!”

John Milton

Omniscience, Divine Knowledge, God, Deception, Human Limitation

174. “Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.”

John Milton

Inner Turmoil, Hell, Self, Inescapable Nature, Torment