He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself. John Milton More Quotes by John Milton More Quotes From John Milton Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War. John Milton warpeacelife The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. John Milton edenhandsworld Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe. John Milton powerfulmilitarywar They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness. John Milton blindnesseyepeople Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements. John Milton elementsmaytime Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. John Milton blackcookingfood Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk. John Milton lightmoonsea What is strength without a double share of wisdom? John Milton sharemotivationalinspirational 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 griefdarkloss Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. John Milton pandemoniumpeerssatan For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. John Milton angelhypocritemen He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian. I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Assuredly we bring not innocence into the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary. John Milton racechristianrunning Me miserable! Which way shall I fly John Milton wrathsufferingheaven For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need. John Milton freedomskillsmen Hell has no benefits, only torture. John Milton torturehellbenefits Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n. John Milton luciferarisefall Who aspires must down as low John Milton paradise-lost-book-9soarlows Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, John Milton woeshadowworld Death ready stands to interpose his dart. John Milton readydeath But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being. John Milton soullustart
