A Quote by John Milton

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

John Milton

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Books Deep Himself Shallow

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

Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need he elsewhere seek?) Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore.

John Milton

Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.

John Milton

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

Ian Kelsey

Passions are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover

Walter Raleigh

Perhaps I am meant to swim in deep waters.... better deep than shallow!

Joseph Smith, Jr.

It's always better to be deep rather than shallow. And I'm deep.

L.A. Paul

Deep breathing brings deep thinking and shallow breathing shallow thinking.

Elsie Lincoln Benedict

I despise those shallow religious comics. Dennis the Menace, for instance, is the most shallow. When they show him praying - I just can't stand that sort of thing, talking to God about some cutesy thing that he'd done during the day. I don't think Hank Ketcham has any deep knowledge of things like that.

Charles M. Schulz

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

Vikram Seth

Were not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, thats just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.