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Truth and understanding are not such wares as to be monopolized and traded in by tickets and statutes and standards. We must not think to make a staple commodity of all the knowledge in the land, to mark and license it like our broadcloth and our woolpacks.

John Milton

Thinking, Land, Understanding

John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.112

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We read not that Christ ever exercised force but once; and that was to drive profane ones out of his Temple, not to force them in.

John Milton

Temples, Christ, Force

John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.142

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Heaven
Is as the Book of God before thee set,
Wherein to read His wondrous works.

John Milton

Book, Heaven, Thee

John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.286, Mercer University Press

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The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength.

John Milton

Hair, Locks, Purpose

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Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.

John Milton

Arches, Shade, Brooks

John Milton, James BUCHANAN (Grammarian.) (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... With Notes ... To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ... By J. Buchanan”, p.45

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In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread,
Till thou return unto the ground; for thou
Out of the ground wast taken; know thy birth,
For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.

John Milton

Art, Taken, Dust

John Milton (1750). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton”, p.235

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Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n.

John Milton

Sole, Tyranny, Paradise Lost Book 1

John Milton (1850). “Paradise Lost”, p.21

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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd,- Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

John Milton

Sweet, Pride, Delay

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “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.72

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When a king sets himself to bandy against the highest court and residence of all regal powers, he then, in the single person of a man, fights against his own majesty and kingship.

John Milton

Kings, Fighting, Men

John Milton (1847). “The Prose Works of John Milton”, p.517

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Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

John Milton

Crazy, Ambition, Mad

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 261

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Imparadis'd in one another's arms.

John Milton

Life, Arms

John Milton (1754). “Paradise Lost”, p.288

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The sacred influence of light appears.

John Milton

Light, Sacred, Influence

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.171

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It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

John Milton

Love, Sorry, Home

'Comus' (1637) l. 745

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Equally inured by moderation either state to bear, prosperous or adverse.

John Milton

Bears, Moderation, States

John Milton, David Scott Kastan “Paradise Lost (Kastan Edition)”, Hackett Publishing

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

John Milton

Hope, Writing, Frustration

'An Apology for Smectymnuus' (1642) introduction, p. 16

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Know thy birth!
For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

John Milton

Art, Dust, Return

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With thee goes
Thy husband, him to follow thou art bound;
Where he abides, think there thy native soil.

John Milton

Art, Husband, Thinking

John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.477, BookCaps Study Guides

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And to thy husband's will
Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule.

John Milton

Husband, Thee, Submit

John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.297

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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought
The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

John Milton

Truth, Honesty, Fighting

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 6, l. 29

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This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all nature's works, Or works of God in heav'n, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world enjoy'dst, And all the rule, one empire; onlyadd Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love, By name to come called charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.

John Milton

Patience, Stars, Sea

'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

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O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!

John Milton

Hope, Dark, Science

Samson Agonistes l. 80 (1671) See T. S. Eliot 104

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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

John Milton

Dream, Moon, Sides

John Milton, Henry Stebbing (1836). “Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books”, p.25

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God shall be all in all.

John Milton

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1826). “The poetical works of John Milton: With notes of various authors”, p.228

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The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand.

John Milton

Night, Hands, Black

John Milton (1832). “Milton's Poetical Works: Together with the Life of the Author”, p.56

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Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

John Milton

Way, Paradise, Hell

Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)

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Born: December 9, 1608
Died: November 8, 1674
Occupation: Poet
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