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Bacchus, that first from out the purple grapeCrush'd the sweet poison of misused wine. — John Milton
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.
— Philip Pullman
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
God shall be all in all.
— John Milton
Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.
— John Milton
Danger will wink on opportunity.
— John Milton
Day and night,Seed-time and harvest, heat and hoary frost
Shall hold their course, till fire purge all things new. — John Milton
The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.
— John Milton
Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
— John Milton
Meaning Michael Milton; meaning the whole thing.
— John Irving
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
— John Milton
Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.
— John Milton
And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
— John Milton
A short retirement urges a sweet return.
— John Milton
Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,-wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse.
— John Milton
And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.
— John Milton
Our cure, to be no more; sad cure!
— John Milton
All great economists are tall. There are two exceptions: John Kenneth Galbraith and Milton Friedman.
— George Stigler
Every cloud has a silver lining
— John Milton
Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.
— John Milton
Indu'd With sanctity of reason.
— John Milton
Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind. — John Milton
A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.
— John Milton
And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon.
— John Milton
So spake the Son, and into terrour chang'd His count'nance too severe to be beheld And full of wrauth bent on his Enemies.
— John Milton
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
— John Milton
Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
— John Milton
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
— John Milton
The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.
— John Milton
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
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.
— John Milton
But what will not ambition and revengeDescend to? — John Milton
A boundless continent, Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night Starless expos'd.
— John Milton
Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest,Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven. — John Milton
So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.
— John Milton
Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.
— John Milton
Hail holy light, offspring of heav'n firstborn!
— John Milton
Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.
— John Milton
Seas wept from our deep sorrows.
— John Milton
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth,Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! — John Milton
Yours be the advantage all, mine the revenge
— John Milton
What honour that, But tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments and lies.
— John Milton
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
— John Milton
Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.
— John Milton
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
— John Milton
No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
— John Milton
Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heav'n on all his ways.
— John Milton
Beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies.
— John Milton
The brazen throat of war.
— John Milton
Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.
— John Milton
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
— John Milton
To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad.
— John Milton
Where shame is, there is also fear.
— John Milton
And miserable it is to be to others cause of misery ...
— John Milton
Faithful found among the faithless.
— John Milton