John Milton: Trending quotes (page 2)

“I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.”

“Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.”

“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep…”

“Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear”

“A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.”

“Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

“I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend…”

“Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.”

“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”

“What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones,
The labor of an age in pilèd stones,
Or that his hallowed relics should be hid
Under a star-y-pointing pyramid?
Dear son of memory, great heir of fame,
What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?”

“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”

“This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.”

“For so I created them free and free they must remain.”

“What is dark within me, illumine.”

“And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie,
That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.”

“Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell.”

“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,
Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”

“Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.”

“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”