John Milton: Trending quotes

John Milton trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection

John Milton: 380 quotes18 likes

“No war, or battle's sound
Was heard the world around.
The idle spear and shield were high up hung.”

John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hymn, stanza 4, line 53
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

“He that has light within his own clear breast,
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts,
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself is his own dungeon.”

John Milton Comus

Source: Comus (1634), Lines 381-385

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”

Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1649)

“And looks commercing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.”

Source: Il Penseroso (1631), Line 39

“It was the winter wild
While the Heav'n-born child
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.”

John Milton On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

Hymn, stanza 1, line 29
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity (1629)

“That old man eloquent.”

To the Lady Margaret Ley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“My rising is thy fall”

John Milton Paradise Regained

Spoke by Jesus to Satan
Book III: Line 201
Paradise Regained (1671)

“The gadding vine.”

John Milton Lycidas

Source: Lycidas (1637), Line 40

“And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert th' Eternal Providence,
And justifie the wayes of God to men.”

John Milton book Paradise Lost

i.17-26
Paradise Lost (1667)

“Who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best: his state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed,
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait.”

On His Blindness (1652)

Compare "Patience is also a form of action." Attributed to Auguste Rodin in: Leonard William Doob (1990). Hesitation: Impulsivity and Reflection. p. 124