Quotes from John Milton
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
— John Milton
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.
— John Milton
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
— John Milton
Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154
— John Milton
And in their motions harmony divine so smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear listens delighted.
— John Milton
There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
— John Milton
Temper justice with mercy.
— John Milton
Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command!
— John Milton
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
— John Milton
But past who can recall, or don undoe? Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate
— John Milton
The star that bids the shepherd fold.
— John Milton
Many a man lives a burden to the Earth, but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, imbalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
— John Milton