John Milton Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

  John Milton

  Strong, Heart, Men

• Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

  John Milton

  Men, Endurance, Sides

  John Milton (2003). “The Major Works”, p.327, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  John Milton

  May, Riches, Soil

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

• If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

  John Milton

  Ambition, Hands, Treasure

  John Milton (1785). “Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton. A New Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, ...”, p.92

• For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

  John Milton

  Design, Ease, Wealth

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

• Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive,
  Get riches first, get wealth.

  John Milton

  Riches, Firsts, Wealth

  John Milton (2007). “Complete Shorter Poems”, p.460, Pearson Education

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