May 03, 2022

GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN MILTON

 


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GREAT QUOTES OF MILTON


“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“What hath night to do with sleep?” - John Milton, 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.” - John Milton, Areopagitica

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Solitude sometimes is best society.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

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

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost