John Milton Quotes About Patience

Quotes about: Patience

• But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

  John Milton

  Patience, Pain, Evil

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.6, l.461-3.

• 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

• They also serve who only stand and wait.

  John Milton

  Patience, Waiting, Patience And Waiting

  "When I consider how my light is spent" l. 14 (1673)

• We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
  Abraham Lincoln, White House speech 11 April 1865.
  Or arm th' obdured breast
  With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, White, Eggs

• This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

  John Milton

  Patience, Stars, Sea

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

• Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.

  John Milton

  Patience, Steel, Stubborn

  John Milton (1837). “Paradis perdu: de Milton”, p.122

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