“A grateful mind by owing owes not, but still pays, at once indebted and discharged.”
John Milton Quotes
1608 – 1674
English poet and polemicist, author of the epic 'Paradise Lost' (1667).
44 quotesAbout John Milton on Wikipedia
“Hail, wedded love, mysterious law; true source of human offspring.”
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”
“Truth is as impossible to be soiled by any outward touch as the sunbeam.”
“Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.”
“Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.”
“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.”
“No man who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free.”
“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”
“It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness.”
“At last he rose, and twitched his mantle blue: tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.”
“Untwisting all the chains that tie the hidden soul of harmony.”
