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415 Powerful John Milton Quotes to Inspire You

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211. “Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...”

John Milton

Reconciliation, Hate, Forgiveness, Human Nature, Conflict

212. “Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.”

John Milton

Morality, Ambition, Peace, Virtue, Worldly Power

213. “Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.”

John Milton

Fate, Free Will, Destiny, Power, Self-determination

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

John Milton

Corruption, Liberty, Bondage, National Character, Moral Decay

215. “Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.”

John Milton

Obedience, Love, Free Will, Divine Order, Angelic Nature

216. “My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth.”

John Milton

Heaven, Spirituality, Transcendence, Earthly Life, Celestial Realm

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

John Milton

Love, Happiness, Relationship, Fulfillment, Human Connection

218. “More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues.”

John Milton

Perseverance, Adversity, Poetry, Moral Strength, Human Voice

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

John Milton

Melancholy, Madness, Mental State, Alliteration, Human Condition

220. “Money brings honor, friends, conquest, and realms.”

John Milton

Money, Power, Influence, Wealth, Human Nature

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

John Milton

Celebration, Night, Joy, Festivity, Indulgence

222. “Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.”

John Milton

Night, Sleep, Peace, Tranquility, Nature

223. “Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”

John Milton

Virtue, Law, Morality, Transgression, Higher Purpose

224. “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

225. “Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks and rivers wide Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.”

John Milton

Nature, Beauty, Landscape, Pastoral, Poetry

226. “Luck is the residue of design.”

John Milton

Luck, Preparation, Success, Planning, Opportunity

227. “Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.”

John Milton

Love, Reconciliation, Relationships, Harmony, Human Nature

228. “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

229. “Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”

John Milton

Redemption, Struggle, Hell, Light, Spiritual Journey

230. “Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.”

John Milton

Loneliness, Divine Judgment, Human Nature, Companionship, Creation

231. “Live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.”

John Milton

Nature, Authenticity, Criticism, Human Behavior, Moral Exhortation

232. “Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest.”

John Milton

Pride, Ambition, Fall, Rebellion, Hubris

233. “License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.”

John Milton

Liberty, License, Wisdom, Virtue, Social Responsibility

234. “Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.”

John Milton

Mythology, Memory, Oblivion, Joy, Grief

235. “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

236. “Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”

John Milton

England, National Pride, Leadership, Civilization, Moral Guidance

237. “Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.”

John Milton

Faith, Doubt, Proof, Belief, Spiritual Weakness

238. “Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.”

John Milton

Hell, Wealth, Corruption, Evil, Moral Warning

239. “Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.”

John Milton

Fate, Prophecy, Future, Free Will, Human Destiny

240. “Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north – wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!”

John Milton

Death, Nature, Seasons, Mortality, Inevitability

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