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John Milton Quotes

«Forsook the courts of everlasting day.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: forsook
«Rather than be less / Cared not to be at all.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: cared
«And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.»
«God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of the Reformation itself. What does he then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen?»
«Ran on embattled armies clad in iron, / And weaponless himself, / Made arms ridiculous.»
«I was all ear / And took in strains that might create a soul / Under the ribs of Death.»
«These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!»
«The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: professed
«As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: as it were
«None can love freedom heartily but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license which never hath more scope than under tyrants»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | About: Freedom | Keywords: license, scope