John Milton Quotes

He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

John Milton

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Years
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• When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• On a scale of one to 10, I feel I'm at a nine because there's definitely room for improvement. I know I could go further.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Know
  • Improvement
  • Go

• The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.

  

  Sam Harris
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• Everything that I hate about myself goes away when I was onstage.

  

  Halsey
  • Hate
  • Myself
  • Everything

• It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Red

• Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Good
  • Love
  • Food

• In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman

• I've got a quiet voice. I think it's because as a child I didn't speak very much. I used to put my fingers in my ears to feel the silence, which was like a lovely trickling motion in my head.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Silence

• The dividing line between wish and need was never clear.

  

  James Buchan
  • Wish

• My mom's an angel, bless her heart, for everything I put her through.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Heart
  • Mom
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• Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing.

  

  Bill Murray

• I'm glad I have a story to tell. It's unique, it's mine, and I'm blessed to have it.

  

  Chris Harris, Jr.
  • Unique
  • Blessed

• I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

  

  Ashthon Jones
  • Music

• Large corporations have the ability to distract people with controversy that just distracts people from what's great about the movie or what works about the movie.

  

  Peter Landesman
  • People
  • Great
  • Movie

• Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Work
  • Simple

• From a personal point of view I want some medals because that is what you aim for when you start out playing.

  

  Jamie Redknapp

• Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Wisdom
  • Understand
  • Discover

• If anything, my problem is, I'm not a genius, it's just that I can write songs very quick. I have a lot of ideas, let's put it that way - I have too many ideas. And my problem is, I stockpile ideas and I get lazy and I don't finish them, and next thing I know, I'm looking around and I've got a hundred song ideas, but are any of them any good? I don't know.

  

  Gary Louris
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Problem

• conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

  

  Casey Miller
  • World
  • Children
  • Action

• Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside.

  

  David Wolfe
  • Life
  • Mirror
  • Duplication

• He who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declares as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best covenant of his fidelity.

  

  John Milton
  • Fidelity
  • Covenant
  • Magnifies