John Milton quote: "When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for."

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
JOHN MILTON

Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the ...
JOHN MILTON

No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
JOHN MILTON

Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
JOHN MILTON

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
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He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kil...
JOHN MILTON

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
JOHN MILTON

A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
JOHN MILTON

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON

He that has light within his own cleer brestMay sit ith center, and enjoy bright day,But he that hid...
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The power of Kings and Magistrates is nothing else, but what is only derivative, transferrd and comm...
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For man he seemsIn all his lineaments, though in his faceThe glimpses of his Fathers glory shine.
JOHN MILTON

How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down...
JOHN MILTON

Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libe...
JOHN MILTON

A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.
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Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear T...
JOHN MILTON

The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.
JOHN MILTON

Who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe.
JOHN MILTON

Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.
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The rising world of waters dark and deep.
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Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flo...
JOHN MILTON

Deep versed in books and shallow in himself.
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For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active a...
JOHN MILTON

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills r...
JOHN MILTON

Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as act...
JOHN MILTON

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.
JOHN MILTON

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
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These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bl...
JOHN MILTON

Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
JOHN MILTON

Those graceful acts, those thousand decencies, that daily flow from all her words and actions, mixed...
JOHN MILTON

None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.
JOHN MILTON

He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he th...
JOHN MILTON

Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
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Yet I argue not Again Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of right or hope; but still bear u...
JOHN MILTON

That in such righteousness To them by faith imputed they may find Justification towards God, a...
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O welcome pure-ey'd Faith, white-handed Hope, Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!
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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
JOHN MILTON

Experience, next, to thee I owe, Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd In ignorance; ...
JOHN MILTON

What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
JOHN MILTON

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
JOHN MILTON

Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music.
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Dancing in the chequer'd shade.
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Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
JOHN MILTON

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round.
JOHN MILTON

Solitude sometimes is best society.
JOHN MILTON

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON

And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.
JOHN MILTON

What hath night to do with sleep?
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moment...
JOHN MILTON

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON

Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
JOHN MILTON

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,...
JOHN MILTON

How charming is divine philosophy!
Not harsh and crabb
JOHN MILTON

Peace has her victories which are no less renowned than war.
JOHN MILTON

License they mean when they cry liberty.
JOHN MILTON

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,...
JOHN MILTON

And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and ...
JOHN MILTON

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not pe...
JOHN MILTON

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's im...
JOHN MILTON

Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
JOHN MILTON

With thee conversing I forget all time.
JOHN MILTON

He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
Of wisdom, ...
JOHN MILTON

But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all hell broke loose? Is pain to them
L...
JOHN MILTON

Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.
JOHN MILTON

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
JOHN MILTON

Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, blo...
JOHN MILTON

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
JOHN MILTON

Our country is where ever we are well off.
JOHN MILTON

What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He tha...
JOHN MILTON

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
JOHN MILTON

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or begga...
JOHN MILTON

When the waves are round me breaking,
As I pace the deck alone,
And my eye in vain is seeking<...
JOHN MILTON

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.
JOHN MILTON

Reason also is choice.
JOHN MILTON

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God a...
JOHN MILTON

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid...
JOHN MILTON

A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or th...
JOHN MILTON

It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.
JOHN MILTON

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time ...
JOHN MILTON

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.
JOHN MILTON

'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivere...
JOHN MILTON

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity,
That, when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON

Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather th...
JOHN MILTON

Lords are lordliest in their wine.
JOHN MILTON

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake.
JOHN MILTON

From man or angel the great Architect did wisely to conceal, and not divulge his secrets to be scann...
JOHN MILTON

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
JOHN MILTON

Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
JOHN MILTON

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.
JOHN MILTON

Tears such as angels weep.
JOHN MILTON

Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
JOHN MILTON

What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
O...
JOHN MILTON

But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is hi...
JOHN MILTON

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.
JOHN MILTON

In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora.
JOHN MILTON

Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; or no power that is not limited by laws can ever be prot...
JOHN MILTON

If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, M...
JOHN MILTON

. . . and now expecting Each hour their great adventurer, from the search Of foreign words.
JOHN MILTON

He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow.
JOHN MILTON

Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!
JOHN MILTON

Thus I set my printless feet O'er the cowslip's velvet head, That bends not as I tread.
JOHN MILTON

Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.
JOHN MILTON

In discourse more sweet, (For Eloquence the Sound, Song charmes the sense,) Others apart sat o...
JOHN MILTON

But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-w...
JOHN MILTON

While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the bar...
JOHN MILTON

So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave.
JOHN MILTON

There does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over thi...
JOHN MILTON

Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
JOHN MILTON

This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedde...
JOHN MILTON

The Pilot of the Galilean Lake.
JOHN MILTON

A short retirement urges a sweet return.
JOHN MILTON

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.
JOHN MILTON

When I consider how my light is spent
E're half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that...
JOHN MILTON

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
JOHN MILTON

Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
JOHN MILTON

From morn To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun ...
JOHN MILTON

So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liv...
JOHN MILTON

'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity; She that has that is clad in complete steel, And, like a ...
JOHN MILTON

'Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel
JOHN MILTON

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills...
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O dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark! total eclipse, Without all hope of ...
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, Dungeon, o...
JOHN MILTON

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
JOHN MILTON

And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, Th...
JOHN MILTON

To satisfy the sharp desire I had Of tasting those fair apples, I resolv'd Not to defer; hunge...
JOHN MILTON

So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he.
JOHN MILTON

(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.
JOHN MILTON

That golden key That opes the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON

All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please ...
JOHN MILTON

Whence and what are thou, execrable shape?
JOHN MILTON

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.
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But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!
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But his zeal None seconded, as out of season judged, Or singular and rash.
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A Spirit, zealous, as he seemed, to know More of the Almighty's works, and chiefly Man, God's ...
JOHN MILTON

Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
JOHN MILTON

Stood up, the strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair.
JOHN MILTON

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till a...
JOHN MILTON

Let his tormentor conscience find him out.
JOHN MILTON

Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
JOHN MILTON

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou wi...
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Sweet bird that shunn'st the nose of folly, Most musical, most melancholy! Thee, chauntress, o...
JOHN MILTON

The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.
JOHN MILTON

Hast thou betrayed my credulous innocence With vizor'd falsehood and base forgery?
JOHN MILTON

For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not bettered by the borrower, among good authors is ac...
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And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.
JOHN MILTON

Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.
JOHN MILTON

Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.
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So on he fares, and to the border comes, Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns...
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From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had c...
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For such a numerous host Fled not in silence through the frighted deep With ruin upon ruin, ro...
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The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
JOHN MILTON

These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing ha...
JOHN MILTON

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
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With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
JOHN MILTON

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o...
JOHN MILTON

The palpable obscure.
JOHN MILTON

The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasures.
JOHN MILTON

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's mar...
JOHN MILTON

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
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Under the sooty flag of Acheron, Harpies and Hydras.
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For spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both.
JOHN MILTON

Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
JOHN MILTON

Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us.
JOHN MILTON

Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . . And boldly venture to whatever plac...
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Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
JOHN MILTON

For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony Still moves with thine...
JOHN MILTON

Power ought to serve as a check to power.
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Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.
JOHN MILTON

He's gone, and who knows how may he report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
JOHN MILTON

So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but ...
JOHN MILTON

Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures ...
JOHN MILTON

For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher ...
JOHN MILTON

Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying what contentment find?
JOHN MILTON

Though throned in highest bliss Equal to God, and equally enjoying God-like fruition.
JOHN MILTON

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and hone...
JOHN MILTON

In her face excuse Came prologue, and apology too prompt.
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Human face divine.
JOHN MILTON

If we think we regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all regulations and...
JOHN MILTON

When thou attended gloriously from heaven, Shalt in the sky appear, and from thee send Thy sum...
JOHN MILTON

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
JOHN MILTON

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, an...
JOHN MILTON

For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
JOHN MILTON

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON

Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.
JOHN MILTON

Just then return'd at shut of evening flowers.
JOHN MILTON

Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence ...
JOHN MILTON

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light t...
JOHN MILTON

Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where mos...
JOHN MILTON

None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.
JOHN MILTON

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
JOHN MILTON

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

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