A Quote by John Milton

Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.

John Milton

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Darkness Innocence Lost Never Once

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John Milton
English - Poet
December 9, 1608 - November 8, 1674

We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.

Christopher Alexander

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Josh Billings

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

Susan Hill

But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

John Adams

...Cities may be rebuilt, and a People reduced to Poverty, may acquire fresh Property: But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty once lost is lost forever. When the People once surrendered their share in the Legislature, and their Right of defending the Limitations upon the Government, and of resisting every Encroachment upon them, they can never regain it.

John Adams

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

John Marsden

I never was lost. I was bewildered right bad once for as much as a week, but not lost.

Elizabeth Madox Roberts

Once lost, trust can only be regained if we are as good as our word.

Desmond Tutu

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Seneca the Younger

Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I was never ruined but twice: once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.

Voltaire

I loved. I lost. So I learned to love what is never lost. Then even what I loved that can be lost was through what cannot be lost...so it was never lost.

Yasmin Mogahed

I love to perform. I've never lost the urge. I've never once been on stage when I didn't want to be.

Mark McGrath

It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. ’Tis too cold a companion: away with ’t!