John Milton quotes Born: 12/09/1608 Died: 11/08/1674 Country: united_kingdom

• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. (John Milton) [give/conscience]
• A mind not to be changed by place or time, the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. (John Milton) [mind/time/mind]
• Tears such as angels weep. (John Milton) [tears]
• I am a part of all that I have met. (John Milton)
• 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; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. (John Milton) [books/life/intellect]
• Abashed the devil stood, / And felt how awful goodness is. (John Milton)
• One tongue is sufficient for a woman. (John Milton)
• Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light. (John Milton) [light]
• There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. (John Milton) [truth/persecution]
• He who destroys a good book kills reason itself. (John Milton)
• To live a life half-dead, a living death. (John Milton) [life/death]
• Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. (John Milton) [choice]
• Accuse not Nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. (John Milton) [nature]
• He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; (John Milton) [light/day/thoughts/sun]
• Fear of change perplexes monarchs. (John Milton) [fear/change]
• Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. (John Milton) [books]
• A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond. (John Milton) [master/spirit/life]
• When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. (John Milton) [men/look]
• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. (John Milton) [books/life/intellect]
• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. (John Milton) [death]
• Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows. (John Milton) [more/more]
• None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license. (John Milton) [love/men/rest/love]
• Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. (John Milton) [give/conscience]
• Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy! (John Milton) [bird/silense & noise//melancholy]
• Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. (John Milton) [fame]
• Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. (John Milton)
• A man may be a heretic in the truth; and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy. (John Milton) [truth/truth]
• Our country is where ever we are well off. (John Milton)
• It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness. (John Milton) [blindness]
• The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him. (John Milton) [start/god/knowledge/love]
• Reason also is choice. (John Milton) [choice]

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