- Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
- 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; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
- All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
- Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
- In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
- The martyrs shook the powers of darkness with the irresistible power of weakness.
- I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
- Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
- Loneliness is the first thing which God’s eye named not good.
- A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
10 inspirational john milton quotes on success
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