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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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151. “Solitude is sometimes best society.”

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Solitude, Self-reflection, Companionship, Wisdom, Inner Peace

152. “So many laws argues so many sins.”

John Milton

Law, Sin, Morality, Society, Human Nature

153. “So glistered the dire Snake, and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.”

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Temptation, Fall Of Man, Deception, Sin, Biblical Allusion

154. “So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lacky her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt.”

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Chastity, Virtue, Divine Protection, Purity, Angelic Guardianship

155. “Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.”

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Reason, Emotion, Love, Humanity, Animal Nature

156. “Should God create another Eve, and I Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no no, I feel The Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh, Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.”

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Love, Creation, Unity, Commitment, Adam And Eve

157. “Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.”

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Divine Service, Perseverance, Truth, Moral Victory, Faith

158. “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.”

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Pleasure, Contentment, Pain, Suffering, Human Condition

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

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Golden Age, Virtue, Joy, Love, Triumph

160. “Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.”

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Satan, Fallen Angel, Heaven, Naming, Divine Judgment

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

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Night, Primordial, Darkness, Nature, Poetic Imagery

162. “Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.”

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Danger, Failure, Ambition, Human Nature, Metaphor

163. “Ride the air In whirlwind.”

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Power, Nature, Freedom, Exhilaration, Imagery

164. “Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep.”

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Nature, Beauty, Hidden Treasure, Ocean, Poetic Imagery

165. “Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.”

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Revenge, Consequences, Bitterness, Moral Lesson, Human Nature

166. “Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.”

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Solitude, Peace, Retreat, Nature, Self-reflection

167. “Reason is also choice.”

John Milton

Reason, Choice, Free Will, Decision-making, Rationality

168. “Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.”

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Prudence, Wisdom, Discernment, Circumstance, Virtue

169. “Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.”

John Milton

Censorship, Knowledge, Human Nature, Freedom Of Thought, Intellectual Growth

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

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Temptation, Failure, Deception, Hope, Divine Victory

171. “Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.”

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Peace, Victory, War, Achievement, Human Progress

172. “Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half.”

John Milton

Love, Soulmates, Unity, Companionship, Human Connection

173. “Pandemonium, the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built of the deep: the infernal peers there sit in council.”

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Hell, Satan, Evil, Council, Cosmic Order

174. “Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.”

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Hell, Evil, Hierarchy, Chaos, Biblical Allusion

175. “Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.”

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Eden, Adam And Eve, Paradise, Love, Innocence

176. “Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.”

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Suffering, Adaptation, Hell, Transformation, Human Resilience