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John Milton, born on December 9, 1608, in London, and died on November 8, 1674, was a renowned English poet and scholar. He is best known for his epic poem 'Paradise Lost,' which has had a profound impact on world literature.

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Famous John Milton Quotes

“This further consolation yet secure I carry hence; though all by mee is lost, Such favour I unworthie am voutsaft, By mee the Promis'd Seed shall all restore.”

Life Creation Birth Eve

Author:John Milton

“Nor love thy Life, nor hate; but what thou livst Live well, how long or short permit to Heav'n: And now prepare thee for another sight.”

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Book:Paradise lost

Source: Paradise lost

“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.”

Life Literature Books Immortality

Author:John Milton

“Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd /Labor, as to debar when we need /Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,/ food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse/Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,/To brutes denied, and are of Love the food, Love not the lowest end of human life. For not to irksome toil, but to delight/ He made us, and delight to reason join'd.”

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Author:John Milton

“Whom hast thou then, or what, to accuse, but heaven's free love dealt equally t'all?”

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Book:Paradise lost

Source: Paradise lost

“For 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.”

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Author:John Milton

“So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.”

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Book:The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces

Source: The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces

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

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Book:The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author

“For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?”

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Author:John Milton

“Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.”

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Author:John Milton

“Imparadis'd in one another's arms.”

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Source: Paradise lost

“Freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall.”

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Author:John Milton

“It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.”

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Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author Together with

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author Together with

“Such sober certainty of waking bliss.”

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Author:John Milton

“Luck is the residue of design.”

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Author:John Milton

“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

“Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.”

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Author:John Milton

“Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.”

“To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.”

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Author:John Milton

“By labor and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.”

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Author:John Milton

“(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with th' abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.”

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Author:John Milton

“Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.”

Book:The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings

Source: The poetical works of John Milton: With a memoir, and critical remarks on his genius and writings

“And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant.”

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Author:John Milton

“Daughter to that good Earl, once President Of England's Council, and her Treasury, Who lived in both, unstained with gold or fee, And left them both, more in himself content, Till sad the breaking of that Parliament Broke him, as that dishonest victory At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty, Killed with report that old man eloquent. Though later born than to have known the days Wherein your father flourished, yet by you, Madam, methinks I see him living yet; So well your words his noble virtues praise, That all both judge you to relate them true, And to possess them, honoured Margaret.”

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Life of the Author ...