Quotes about Life || Life quotes || Best of John Milton Quotes

Quotes about Life || Life quotes || Best of John Milton Quotes 

John Milton's timeless quotes reflect on life, freedom, and the power of the mind. From the exploration of good and evil to the value of literature, his wisdom resonates.

I'd be happy to provide you with some famous quotes about life attributed to John Milton:

1. "A mind not 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."

 2. "They also serve who only stand and wait."

3. "He who reigns within himself, and rules his passions, desires, and fears, is more than a king."

4. "The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright."

 

 

5. "Solitude is sometimes best society."

6. "None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license."

 

7. "Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."

8. "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."

 

 

9. "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."

10. "The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler."

 

11. "What hath night to do with sleep?"

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

13. "The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day."

14. "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit."

 

15. "Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is."

16. "Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined."

 

17. "Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n."

18. "Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks."

19. "To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable."

20. "Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell."

21. "A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world."

22. "Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

23. "The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveler."

24. "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."

 

25. "All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield."