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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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151. “Moping melancholy And moon-struck madness.”

John Milton

Melancholy, Madness, Mental State, Alliteration, Human Condition

152. “For evil news rides post, while good news baits.”

John Milton

News, Good And Evil, Communication, Human Nature, Metaphor

153. “Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.”

John Milton

Awakening, Action, Choice, Consequences, Moral Exhortation

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

John Milton

Cynicism, Youth, Nature, Criticism, Maturity

155. “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

156. “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

157. “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

158. “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

159. “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

160. “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

161. “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

162. “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

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

John Milton

Fear, Nature, Darkness, Journey, Danger

164. “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

165. “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

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

John Milton

Night, Primordial, Darkness, Nature, Poetic Imagery

167. “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

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

John Milton

Youth, Joy, Nature, Dance, Innocence

169. “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

170. “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

171. “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

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

John Milton

Faith, Hope, Divine Inspiration, Spirituality, Poetic Imagery

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

John Milton

Music, Influence, Beauty, Power, Art

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

John Milton

Death, Personification, Horror, Famine, Poetic Imagery

175. “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

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

John Milton

Beauty, Weakness, Captivity, Perception, Moral Strength

177. “Nations grow corrupt, love bondage more than liberty; bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.”

John Milton

Corruption, Liberty, Bondage, National Character, Moral Decay

178. “The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.”

John Milton

Wisdom, History, Character, Learning, Self-improvement

179. “The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.”

John Milton

Education, Law, Knowledge, Improvement, Mutual Learning

180. “Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.”

John Milton

Justice, Mercy, Balance, Satisfaction, Divine Judgment

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