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• Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Self Esteem, Self Respect

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 08”

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

  John Milton

  Book, Shallow

  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.173

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• There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.

  John Milton

  Truth, Tolerance, Religion

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• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  John Milton

  Music, Sweet, Lying

  'Arcades' (1645) l. 68

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• Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Communication, Goodness

  John Milton (1758). “Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained...”, p.147

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• Luck is the residue of design.

  John Milton

  Life, Witty, War

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• This is servitude, To serve the unwise.

  John Milton

  Unwise, Servitude

  John Milton, David Masson (1874). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.277

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• And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.

  John Milton

  Redemption, Hell, Lost

  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.191

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• That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

  John Milton

  Evil, Promise, Vices

  1644 Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

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• What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name?

  John Milton

  Stars, Memories, Son

  John Milton, “On Shakespear”

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• Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to the possessor.

  John Milton

  Basketball, Confidence, Inspiration

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• To live a life half dead, a living death.

  John Milton

  Half

  Samson Agonistes l. 100 (1671)

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• Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

  John Milton

  Love, Romantic, Eye

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton, Samuel Johnson (1821). “Paradise lost”, p.241

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• The whole freedom of man consists either in spiritual or civil liberty.

  John Milton

  Spiritual, Freedom, Men

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.133

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• Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

  John Milton

  Sweet, Revenge, Long

  John Milton (1826). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.153

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• Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
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  John Milton

  Jealousy, Negative, Emotion

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• Thou canst not touch the freedom of my mind.

  John Milton

  Mind, Of My Mind

  1634 Comus, A Mask, l.663-5.

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• Reason is also choice.

  John Milton

  Choices, Reason

  John Milton (2013). “Paradise Lost Simplified!: Includes Modern Translation, Study Guide, Historical Context, Biography, and Character Index”, p.109, BookCaps Study Guides

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• But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of Light His reign of peace upon the earth began.

  John Milton

  Peace, Night, Light

  1629 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza 3.

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• The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

  John Milton

  Home, Church, World

  John Milton (2016). “Areopagitica and Other Prose Works”, p.59, Courier Dover Publications

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• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

  John Milton

  Life, Book, Soul

  'Areopagitica' (1644) p. 4

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• For stories teach us, that liberty sought out of season, in a corrupt and degenerate age, brought Rome itself to a farther slavery: for liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands: neither is it completely given, but by them who have the happy skill to know what is grievance and unjust to a people, and how to remove it wisely; what good laws are wanting, and how to frame them substantially, that good men may enjoy the freedom which they merit, and the bad the curb which they need.

  John Milton

  Freedom, Men, Skills

  John Milton (1851). “The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction”, p.245

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• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  John Milton

  Faithful, Suffering, Victory

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.489, Mercer University Press

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• They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them of their blindness.

  John Milton

  Eye, People, Blindness

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.92

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• Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.

  John Milton

  Book, Censorship, Ifs

  John Milton, James Augustus St. John (1871). “The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary Remarks, and Notes”, p.65

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