John Milton Quotes About Victory

Quotes about: Victory

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

  John Milton

  Powerful, Military, War

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

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

  John Milton

  Life, Peace, War

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

• Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

  John Milton

  Revenge, Victory, Ifs

  John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.52

• 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

• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  John Milton

  Faithful, Suffering, Victory

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.489, Mercer University Press

• Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

  John Milton

  War, Soul, Victory

  1652 'To the Lord General Cromwell'.

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