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Eve3 quotes
O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost. — John Milton · 1667The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,
Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd
The mother of mankind. — John Milton · 1667Freedom3 quotes
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. — John Milton · 1649No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free. — John Milton · 1649Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. — John Milton · 1644Original sin3 quotes
Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost. — John Milton · 1667Of Man's First Disobedience, and the fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing, Heav'nly Muse. — John Milton · 1667The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile,
Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd
The mother of mankind. — John Milton · 1667Fallen world2 quotes
Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost. — John Milton · 1667Of Man's First Disobedience, and the fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing, Heav'nly Muse. — John Milton · 1667Freedom of speech and expression2 quotes
If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man... And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals, that whisper softness in chambers? — John Milton · 1644Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. — John Milton · 1644Love2 quotes
Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. — John Milton · 1667What thou art is mine;
Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. — John Milton · 1667Men and women2 quotes
Flesh of flesh,
Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state
Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe. — John Milton · 1667What thou art is mine;
Our state cannot be severed, we are one,
One flesh; to lose thee were to lose my self. — John Milton · 1667Problem of evil2 quotes
What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the height of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. — John Milton · 1667Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men;
Unless there be who think not God at all. — John Milton · 1671Virtue2 quotes
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. — John Milton · 1644Most men admire
Virtue who follow not her lore. — John Milton · 1671Athens1 quote
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts
And Eloquence. — John Milton · 1671Beauty1 quote
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possessed. — John Milton · 1671Being in love1 quote
With thee conversing I forget all time. — John Milton · 1667Books1 quote
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. — John Milton · 1644Chaos1 quote
All hell broke loose. — John Milton · 1667Character1 quote
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. — John Milton · 1644Cities1 quote
Behold now this vast city: a city of refuge, the mansion house of liberty. — John Milton · 1644Comforting words1 quote
Apt words have power to suage
The tumours of a troubled mind. — John Milton · 1671Conflict resolution1 quote
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end;
Not wedlock-treachery. — John Milton · 1671Connecting with others1 quote
With thee conversing I forget all time. — John Milton · 1667Criticism from others1 quote
He hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public scorn. — John Milton · 1667Curiosity1 quote
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. — John Milton · 1644Diversity of opinion1 quote
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making. — John Milton · 1644Effects of war1 quote
For what can war, but endless war still breed? — John Milton · 1674Freedom of the press1 quote
If we think to regulate printing, thereby to rectify manners, we must regulate all recreations and pastimes, all that is delightful to man... And who shall silence all the airs and madrigals, that whisper softness in chambers? — John Milton · 1644Freedom of thought1 quote
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. — John Milton · 1644Good conversation1 quote
With thee conversing I forget all time. — John Milton · 1667Haters gonna hate1 quote
He hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal hiss, the sound
Of public scorn. — John Milton · 1667Heaven1 quote
What if earth
Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein
Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? — John Milton · 1667Heaven and earth1 quote
What if earth
Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein
Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? — John Milton · 1667Heaven and hell1 quote
Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. — John Milton · 1667