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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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211. “Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.”

John Milton

Jealousy, Love, Suffering, Human Emotion, Relationship

212. “Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.”

John Milton

Life, Living Well, Divine Providence, Moderation, Wisdom

213. “Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.”

John Milton

Self-knowledge, Identity, Wisdom, Understanding, Introspection

214. “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

215. “Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.”

John Milton

Womanhood, Domesticity, Marriage, Virtue, Gender Roles

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

John Milton

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

217. “Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.”

John Milton

Evening, Nature, Silence, Rest, Poetic Imagery

218. “Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.”

John Milton

Conscience, Despair, Memory, Regret, Moral Awakening

219. “Now I see Peace to corrupt no less than war to waste.”

John Milton

Peace, Corruption, War, Destruction, Moral Equivalence

220. “Now the bright morning-star, day's harbinger, comes dancing from the east.”

John Milton

Morning, Hope, New Beginnings, Nature, Celestial Imagery

221. “O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.”

John Milton

Conscience, Fear, Moral Anguish, Inner Turmoil, Self-reflection

222. “O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!”

John Milton

Darkness, Despair, Blindness, Hopelessness, Personal Lament

223. “O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”

John Milton

Beauty, Transience, Nature, Mortality, Poetic Imagery

224. “O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!”

John Milton

Paradise Lost, Joy, Sorrow, Consequences, Human Condition

225. “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

226. “O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age!”

John Milton

Blindness, Suffering, Vulnerability, Adversity, Disability

227. “O madness to think use of strongest wines And strongest drinks our chief support of health, When God with these forbidden made choice to rear His mighty champion, strong above compare, Whose drink was only from the liquid brook.”

John Milton

Temperance, Health, Divine Wisdom, Strength, Natural Living

228. “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

229. “O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.”

John Milton

Fallen State, Regret, Past Glory, Sun, Divine Punishment

230. “O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.”

John Milton

Foresight, Ignorance, Future, Evil, Burden Of Knowledge

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

John Milton

Faith, Hope, Divine Inspiration, Spirituality, Poetic Imagery

232. “O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death.”

John Milton

Nature, Landscape, Danger, Journey, Poetic Imagery

233. “Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.”

John Milton

Evening, Sound, Landscape, Melancholy, Poetic Imagery

234. “Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.”

John Milton

Human Nature, Discord, Evil, Rationality, Criticism

235. “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.”

John Milton

Nativity, Simplicity, Love, Pastoral Life, Human Nature

236. “On the tawny sands and shelves trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.”

John Milton

Fantasy, Nature, Supernatural, Playfulness, Imagery

237. “Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

John Milton

Opinion, Knowledge, Wisdom, Personal Growth, Intellectual Development

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

John Milton

Death, Oblivion, Cure, Existence, Paradox

239. “Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.”

John Milton

Love, Unity, Relationship, Identity, Marriage

240. “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.”

John Milton

Suffering, Adaptation, Hell, Transformation, Human Resilience

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