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John Milton Quotes
20 of the best book quotes from John Milton
#1
“Me miserable! which way shall I flie
Infinite wrauth, and infinite despaire?
Which way I flie is Hell; my self am Hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep
Still threatning to devour me opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav’n.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
despair
Hell
heaven
suffering
#2
“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav’nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
Eternity
heaven
singing
#3
“This horror will grow milde, this darkness light.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
darkness
light
#4
“What in me is dark illumine.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
light
darkness
change
#5
“Knowledge forbidd’n?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord
Envie them that? can it be sin to know,
Can it be death?”
author
John Milton
person
God
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
knowledge
death
#6
“I formd them free, and free they must remain.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concept
freedom
#7
“Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
freedom
fate
choices
#8
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my Clay
To mould me Man, did I sollicite thee
From darkness to promote me.”
author
John Milton
person
God
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
men
darkness
#9
“A mind not to be chang’d by Place or Time.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
time
the mind
determination
#10
“The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
heaven
Hell
the mind
#11
“This glorious sight, when sleep hath shut all eyes?”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concept
sleeping
#12
“Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav’n.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
power
heaven
Hell
service
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#13
“For solitude somtimes is best societie.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
solitude
society
#14
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
Hardship and Misfortunes
Hell
light
perseverance
#15
“Awake, arise, or be for ever fall’n.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concept
waking up
#16
“Invincible: abasht the Devil stood,
And felt how awful goodness is, and saw
Vertue in her shape how lovly, saw, and pin’d
His loss.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
Devil
goodness
virtue
#17
“All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
lost
willpower
revenge
hatred
courage
#18
“For never can true reconcilement grow
Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc’d so deep.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
reconciliation
pain
hatred
#19
“How can I live without thee, how forgoe
Thy sweet Converse and Love so dearly joyn’d?”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
life
marriage
conversations
love
loneliness
#20
“At length from us may find, who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.”
author
John Milton
book
Paradise Lost
concepts
control
self-control
Hardship and Misfortunes
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