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• Anarchy is the sure consequence of tyranny; for no power that is not limited by laws can ever be protected by them.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Law, Democracy

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• Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.

  John Milton

  Fall, Lucifer, Arise

  John Milton (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With the Principal Notes of Various Commentators. To which are Added Illustrations, with Some Account of the Life of Milton”, p.43

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• Heav'nly love shall outdoo Hellish hate

  John Milton

  Hate

  John Milton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Milton (Illustrated)”, p.228, Delphi Classics

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• Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.997, Modern Library

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• There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

  John Milton

  Reading, Writing, Men

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• To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

  John Milton

  Able, Bears, Blind

  John Milton, George Burnett (1809). “The Prose Works of John Milton: Tenure of the magistrate (continued)”, p.357

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• Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

  John Milton

  Love, Chocolate, Eating

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• Fame is the last infirmity of the human mind.

  John Milton

  Mind, Lasts, Recognition

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• Let us no more contend, nor blame each other, blamed enough elsewhere, but strive, In offices of love, how we may lighten each other's burden.

  John Milton

  Marriage, Office, May

  John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins (1836). “The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins”, p.81

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  He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.

  John Milton

  Book, Reading, Library

  Areopagitica (1644)

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• In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

  John Milton

  Men, Causes, Argument

  1671 Samson Agonistes, l.903-4.

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• I hate when vice can bolt her arguments,
  And virtue has no tongue to check her pride.

  John Milton

  Hate, Pride, Vices

  John Milton (1842). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.144

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• Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

  John Milton

  Gratitude, Forever, Thankfulness

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• Execute their airy purposes.

  John Milton

  Purpose, Execution, Airy

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.423-31.

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• The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

  John Milton

  Work, Luxury, Restraint

  John Milton, John Aikin (1806). “Poetical Works: With a Preface, Biographical and Critical”, p.92

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• Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

  John Milton

  May, Sometimes, Knows

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.466

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• It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

  John Milton

  Bible, Men, Hands

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.325

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• When language in common use in any country becomes irregular and depraved, it is followed by their ruin and degradation. For what do terms used without skill or meaning, which are at once corrupt and misapplied, denote but a people listless, supine, and ripe for servitude?

  John Milton

  Country, Skills, People

  John Milton, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1856). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.533

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• Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

  John Milton

  Death, Keys, Eternity Of Life

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• Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

  John Milton

  Peace, Writing, Learning

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 31

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• Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

  John Milton

  Beauty, Opportunity, Christian Inspirational

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• Neither prosperity nor empire nor heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit, and a vain hatred of the rest of the world.

  John Milton

  Hate, Winning, Hands

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• I will not allow my daughters to learn foreign languages because one tongue is sufficient for a woman.

  John Milton

  Daughter, Tongue, Language

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• The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Stars, Lying

  'Comus' (1637) l. 195

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• Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.

  John Milton

  Hate, Lucifer, Grows

  1665 Satan. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.98-9.

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