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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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181. “What is dark within me, illumine.”

John Milton

Enlightenment, Self-knowledge, Inner Darkness, Spiritual Growth, Divine Guidance

182. “Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.”

John Milton

Celebration, Night, Joy, Festivity, Indulgence

183. “Luck is the residue of design.”

John Milton

Luck, Preparation, Success, Planning, Opportunity

184. “Wickedness is weakness.”

John Milton

Morality, Strength, Vice, Virtue, Human Nature

185. “Ah gentle pair, ye little think how nigh Your change approaches, when all these delights Will vanish and deliver ye to woe, More woe, the more your taste is now of joy.”

John Milton

Innocence, Impending Doom, Joy, Sorrow, Fall Of Man

186. “The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.”

John Milton

Spiritual Hunger, Leadership, Neglect, Metaphor, Social Criticism

187. “I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.”

John Milton

Gender Roles, Education, Language, Prejudice, Cultural Limitations

188. “Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.”

John Milton

Self-esteem, Morality, Justice, Personal Growth, Virtue

189. “With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall; only supreme In misery; such joy ambition finds.”

John Milton

Ambition, Fall, Power, Misery, Paradox

190. “The never-ending flight Of future days.”

John Milton

Time, Future, Eternity, Continuity, Human Existence

191. “Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.”

John Milton

Love, Happiness, Relationship, Fulfillment, Human Connection

192. “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

193. “To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise.”

John Milton

Nature, Dawn, Birdsong, Awakening, Poetic Imagery

194. “Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.”

John Milton

Revenge, Victory, Consolation, Conflict, Human Desire

195. “Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.”

John Milton

Innocence, Impurity, Trial, Purification, Human Nature

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

John Milton

Knowledge, Morality, Books, Conscience, Purity

197. “Dim eclipse, disastrous twilight.”

John Milton

Darkness, Foreboding, Cosmic Event, Ominous Imagery, Nature

198. “The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground.”

John Milton

Conquest, Culture, Preservation, Respect, Historical Reference

199. “Angels contented with their face in heaven, Seek not the praise of men.”

John Milton

Angels, Contentment, Divine Approval, Humility, Heavenly Realm

200. “Virtue that wavers is not virtue, but vice revolted from itself, and after a while returning. The actions of just and pious men do not darken in their middle course.”

John Milton

Virtue, Constancy, Moral Strength, Righteousness, Human Nature

201. “Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.”

John Milton

Poetry, Imagination, Nature, Theater, Literary Appreciation

202. “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.”

John Milton

Mind, Perception, Reality, Heaven, Hell

203. “Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.”

John Milton

Books, Knowledge, Destruction, Reason, Human Value

204. “How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns.”

John Milton

Philosophy, Beauty, Wisdom, Harmony, Intellectual Pleasure

205. “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

206. “The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.”

John Milton

Wisdom, Humility, Knowledge, Socratic Method, Self-awareness

207. “Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.”

John Milton

Reconciliation, Love, Mutual Support, Forgiveness, Unity

208. “O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”

John Milton

Strength, Wisdom, Balance, Vulnerability, Leadership

209. “Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.”

John Milton

Truth, Suffering, Fortitude, Victory, Faith

210. “To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood.”

John Milton

Conquest, Divine Power, Angels, Submission, Cosmic Struggle

415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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