John Milton Quotes About Power

Quotes about: Power

• Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

  John Milton

  Power, Light, Long

  Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

• O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

  John Milton

  Grief, Loss, Dark

  John Milton (1853). “The poetical works of John Milton, with life. Complete ed”, p.359

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

  John Milton

  Powerful, Military, War

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 648

• Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

  John Milton

  Sympathy, Condolences, Power

  John Milton (2012). “Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and the Complete Shorter Poems”, p.335, Modern Library

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

  John Milton

  Revenge, Power, May

  John Milton (1850). “Paradise Lost”, p.23

• Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

  John Milton

  Love, Power, Strange

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1003

• Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

  John Milton

  Time, Power, Night

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

• His rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.

  John Milton

  Power

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.370

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