John Milton Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.

• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Soul

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

• I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

  John Milton

  Life, Patience, Integrity

  John Milton, Charles Symmons (1806). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author”, p.209

• Luck is the residue of design.

  John Milton

  Life, Witty, War

• Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

  John Milton

  Life, Peace, War

  "To the Lord General Cromwell" l. 10 (written 1652)

• So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.

  John Milton

  Love, Life, Boyfriend

  Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.76

• Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.

  John Milton

  Life, Queens, Twilight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 598

• For men to tell how human life began
  Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?

  John Milton

  Life, Men, Humans

  1665 Adam to Raphael. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.250-1.

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

  John Milton

  Life, Hate, Long

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 11, l. 553

• Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

  John Milton

  Life, Arms

  John Milton (1754). “Paradise Lost”, p.288

• Freely we serve,
  Because we freely love, as in our will
  To love or not; in this we stand or fall.

  John Milton

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 5, l. 538

• It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
  Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
  That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
  But what it is, hard is to say,
  Harder to hit.

  John Milton

  Life, Winning, Long

  John Milton (1836). “The Poetical Works of John Milton... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author Together with”, p.309

• Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

  John Milton

  Life, Waking, Sober

  'Comus' (1637) l. 263

• To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.

  John Milton

  Life, Lying, Prime

• And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.

  John Milton

  Life, Tree, Middle

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 192

• Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.

  John Milton

  Life, Daughter, Father

  John Milton (1822). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author ...”, p.216

• (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.

  John Milton

  Life, Thinking, Mind

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 64

• Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Men

  John Milton (1848). “The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings”, p.18

• By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.

  John Milton

  Life, Nature, Strong

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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