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| John Milton Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake. | Angels |
| 2 | Why need a man forestall his date of grief, and run to meet that he would most avoid? | Anticipation |
| 3 | Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them. | Books |
| 4 | Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. | Death |
| 5 | I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war. | Education |
| 6 | Oftentimes nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. | Esteem |
| 7 | And out of good still to find means of evil. | Evil |
| 8 | Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds,Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms. | Evil |
| 9 | Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil. | Fame |
| 10 | Into a limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown. | Foolish |
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