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John Milton [1608-1674] English
Rank: 101
Poet (with poems)

Blank verse, Christian, Devotional, Didactism, Enlightenment, Epic, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Slavery, Sonnet, Vernacular


John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell.

Beauty, Change, Experience, Freedom, Good, Life, Men, Nature, Space, Thankful, Truth, War



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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. Change, Experience, Life, Thankful
101
To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
102
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
103
For what can war, but endless war, still breed? War
104
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
105
Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
106
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
107
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship. Beauty, Nature
108
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. Good
109
True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.
110
Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
111
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
112
Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.
113
When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. Men
114
He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
115
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.
116
Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth. Truth
117
Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.
118
Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe.
119
The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. Space
120
None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence. Freedom
121
They also serve who only stand and wait.
122
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness.
123
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
124
Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.
125
No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.
126
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
201
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
202
Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
203

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