List of John Milton Quotes

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John Milton
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O shame to men! devil with devil damned firm concord holds, men only disagree of creatures rational, though under hope of heavenly grace: and god proclaiming peace, yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife among themselves, and levy cruel wars, wasting the earth, each other to destroy: as if (which might induce us to accord) man had not hellish foes enough besides, that day and night for his destruction wait.
War Night Men
Rhime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of rimeing.
Poetry Age Ornaments
In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for thou out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth, for dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.
Art Taken Dust
For no falsehood can endure touch of celestial temper.
Lying Endure Temper
There is no christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness, which in a thousand outward and intermitting crosses may yet be done well, as in this vale of tears.
Christian Tears Done
And feel that i am happier than i know.
Happiness Feels Knows
Ah, why should all mankind for one man's fault, be condemned, if guiltless?
Men Faults Should
By a certain fate, great acts, and great eloquence have most commonly gone hand in hand, equalling and honoring each other in the same ages.
Fate Greatness Hands
So shall the world go on, to good malignant, to bad men benign, under her own weight groaning.
Men Goes On World
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, after offence returning, to regain love once possess'd.
Love Power Strange
With a smile that glow'd celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.
Love Hue Red
Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the greeks have store, as cebes, plutarch, and other socratic discourses.
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  • Born: December 9, 1608
  • Died: November 8, 1674
  • Occupation: Poet
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